Find a bookmark in a pdf?

Hi all. I'm looking to create a dynamic help system where the user can choose a field and be taken to the correct section in pdf based documentation, stored on a network resource. In specific, I'm looking for a way to find and launch a pdf at a specific bookmark in the documentation based on a context senstive search or specific field they have chosen. Does anyone know of an open source library that has this functionality?
Thanks!

Launching a PDF is done by calling acrord32.exe at the command line (at least in Windows) and passing the file name as the first parameter. If there were a way to make it open at a bookmark, that would be done by more command-line parameters. Adobe's documentation would be the place to start looking for such a feature, if it even exists.
(None of that has anything to do with Java or iText.)

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I've been trying to PDF a 344 page FrameMaker book (several documents) but I keep getting a memory error (I doubt it's my machine cause it happens on others). So I PDFd the individual documents in the book then combined them in Acrobat. That works fine except that a top level bookmark is added for each PDF filename. Looks something like this:
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Printing
Previewing
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Financial Report Writer
Report_Guide_2.pdf
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Order Entry Reports
And so on...
I cannot figure out how to get rid of these bookmarks (e.g., Report_Guide_2.pdf) and just have the bookmarks that were established in the individual PDF files. I've gone through the Acrobat Help but I don't find any obvious reference to a setting that controls this. Does anyone know how to prevent the generation of these unnecessary bookmarks during combining (Insert pages)?
I have also used the Create PDF/From Multiple Files method and it also generates the unnecessary bookmarks.
I'm using Acrobat 7.1.0 Professional on Windows XP Pro.
Thanks
April

As the script is written, you can cut and paste it into the JavaScript console/ Debugger, "Ctrl + J", and then highlight the text and press the keypad "Enter" key. You can place the following variation in Acrobat's JavaScript folder and have a menu item: function RemovePDFTypeFromBookmarks() { /* Author: Sean Stewart, ARTS PDF Date: 2 June 2004 Description: When you merge documents using Acrobat's merge process it creates a high-level bookmark with the filename of the merged document and subordinates all bookmarks from the merged document below this. This script can be used to: 1) moves all subordinated bookmarks up the bookmark tree; and 2) delete the filename bookmark */ var bm = this.bookmarkRoot; // Find the bookmarks which have .PDF and move all their children to the end // of the bookmark tree. Add each found bookmark to an array so that // it can be deleted at the conclusion of the process // Create an array to hold the bookmarks to delete @ a later stage try { var bmToDeleteArray = new Array(); // console.show(); // console.clear(); // console.println("Removing bookmarks with string \".PDF\" in name"); // Iterate through each bookmark var ibmLength = bm.children.length; for (var i = 0; i < ibmLength; i++) { // Check to see if this is a filename which // contains sub-ordinate bookmarks var bmToCheck = bm.children[i]; // test as case insative if((bmToCheck.name.toLowerCase().indexOf(".pdf")!=-1) && (bmToCheck.children!=null)) { // console.println("found bookmark with children " + i); // Move all children to the end of the root bookmark tree // being sure to move the first item in each case // note: this is because the queue is shrinking as // we move each item var ibmChildrenToMoveLength = bmToCheck.children.length; for(var j=0; j<ibmChildrenToMoveLength; j++) { // console.println("moving bookmark " + j); bm.insertChild(bmToCheck.children[0], bm.children.length); } // Add this to the array of bookmarks to be deleted later bmToDeleteArray[bmToDeleteArray.length] = bmToCheck; } } // Iterate through the array of 'filename' bookmarks to delete // and delete them for (var i = 0; i < bmToDeleteArray.length; i++){ // Delete bookmark bmToDeleteArray[i].remove(); } // Finally remove the array as a nicety delete bmToDeleteArray; // console.println(bmToDeleteArray.length + " booksmarks found and removed."); } catch (error) { app.alert("Action failed.\nThere must be an open document to process\n"+ error, 0, 3); } finally { // console.hide(); return; } //end try } end funciton // insert after the "Close" item (the default behavior) app.addMenuItem( { cName: , cUser: "Remove \".PDF\" Bookmarks", cParent: "Tools", cExec: "RemovePDFTypeFromBookmarks()", cEnable: "event.rc = event.target != null", nPos: "Object Data"});

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How do you set the zoom level to Inherit Zoom for all bookmarks in a pdf?

beatngu13
I made an account just to "like" your comment and say that you are a god among men.
I've been searching for hours about how to make the zoom level persistent throughout following links in various PDF's I have, and most sources were saying to just buy acrobat pro and edit the bookmarks manually with it.
I saw that it was possible to write an application to change the property, and considered doing it after the only pre-existing custom application I could find was asking for $50.
Thanks to you, I no longer have to worry about re-zooming every time I click a bookmark, and I'm not out $50 or the time it would take to code an app myself!
From the bottom of my heart, thank you!

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The generated pdfs are searchable using Adobe acrobat and Google -Gmails built in pdf viewer . However in Preview.App the text seems to be only recognized as individual characters . For eg the text "hello world" will not match hello or world , but typing just h into the search bar will show up matched text as "h el l o" . So although visibly the text appears as a single word , semantically the words just seem to be composed of one or two characters.
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The posts on the reportlab newsgroup suggest that
"> If the preview is actually rendering the pdf and then searching, the 0
degrees case should be searchable. If that's the way the search is happening
then it's no surprise that the search should fail if the rendered letters
are at 90deg." -Robin Becker
Test cases show that search fails completely at rotations of 90 , succeed partially at rotations of 45, succeed fully at rotations of 0.
So , is there a way to prevent Preview from only searching the final rendered PDF. The pdf I am complaining about are searched fine in the many other PDF readers I tested that probably handle search differently.
Hari

HT2506 In pages how can I link text within the document? I can find a bookmark option and links only allows me to link to a web page

Hi all,
This is my first time using this discussion site! Any help would be great, as I am getting very frustrated with pages!
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Bookmarks are missing (sadly) and with them, the ability to create an in document link.
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I opened my computer and the whole top only shows web search, I can not find my bookmarks and I tried reloading firefox and still nothing but tab bar. Tried f10, alt, nothing! Can I reload an old firefox? There is no firefox logo at top. When I rt click at top I see hide toolbar and leave full screen. To the right there is only a home sign. How can I get my BOOKMARKS ??????? I so need them and hate what ever this is that now shows up on firefox.

The Reset Firefox feature can fix many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your essential information.
Note: ''This will cause you to lose any Extensions, Open websites, and some Preferences.''
To Reset Firefox do the following:
#Go to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information.
#Click the "Reset Firefox" button.
#Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is done, it will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish.
#Firefox will open with all factory defaults applied.
Further information can be found in the [[Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems]] article.
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When saving a PDF from a FrameMaker book, is it possible to set document filenames as bookmarks in the PDF?

When saving a PDF from a FrameMaker book, is it possible to set document filenames as bookmarks in the PDF? Currently when I have a Framemaker book that I want to save as a PDF, I choose Save Book As and then choose PDF for the file format. A dialog box comes up in which I can choose the Bookmarks tab and choose which tagged content I want to be made into bookmarks in the PDF file. What if I would rather have the filename of a document rather than the chapter title be a bookmark in the PDF? Is that possible? Where would I choose that option? Thanks!

There are two ways that you could do this. You can either use postscript text frames and enter the correct pdfmark entries to show the file name with the corresponding actions (i.e. where to go in the PDF) or you can use hidden text in FM and the "Filename (Short) " variable in a unique paratag to be picked up by FM's bookmark creation.
To go the pdfmark route, see http://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/pdf/pdfmark_primer.pdf for details and also consult the Adobe Pdfmark Reference manual (http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdfmark_reference.pdf).
The hidden text route would use FM's Color Views to specify a colour as Invisible. This will make the content visually disappear from the screen (and any output), but FM will still be able to read the contents of any text that is coloured with the Invisible colour(s).
1. Pick or create a colour that you want to be invisible. [Magenta is usually a good bet and stands out visually].
2. Set that colour to be invisible in View 1 and visible in View 6. [you can use the shortcut <esc> v 1 and <esc> v 6 to toggle between the views.]
3. Create a paratag to use for the filename and set the font colour to use the invisible colour.
3. In the title of each chapter file, drop an anchored frame that is set to be outside of the text frame [so it won't interfere with any other content].
4. In that AFrame, insert a text frame and use the invisible paratag defined in step 3.
5. Insert the Filename (Short) variable in that text frame.
6. Repeat steps for all files to be included in the bookmarks.
When creating the PDF bookmarks, select only the paratag used for the invisible colour.
Don't forget to toggle the View to be invisible (i.e. <esc> v 1 - this also works at the book level for all files in the book).

Creating popup menus using bookmarks in acrobat pdf

Hi All,
I have a requirment to create a button called "Index" in a pdf.
When I click on that button it should show the popup menu and if I click any of the menuitem in that, it should take me to that particular page. I saw some of the interactive pdf's available on the web and they have this facility. I tried to incorporate this into my pdf, it shows the popup menu item correctly but not taking me to that particular page and throughs an error message.
itemIndex is not defined
3:AcroForm:Index:Annot1:MouseUp:Action1
Below is the code I tried for your reference.
My question: Is there any way to populate this popup menu with the action to go to particular page, from the available bookmarks of a pdf?
Please help me. Thanks in advance.
var itemInedex = app.popUpMenu("Executive summary", "Why backups?", "Defining the data status (consistency)", "New disk technologies", "Understanding disaster recovery and restart and recovery", "Drawbacks with backups", "Backup in mainframe", "Schematic presentation", "For more information")
switch (itemIndex) {
case "Executive summary":
this.pageNum = 0
break
case "Why backups?":
this.pageNum = 3
break
case "Defining the data status (consistency)":
this.pageNum = 4
break
case "New disk technologies":
this.pageNum = 5
break
case "Understanding disaster recovery and restart and recovery":
this.pageNum = 6
break
case "Drawbacks with backups":
this.pageNum = 7
break
case "Backup in mainframe":
this.pageNum = 8
break
case "Schematic presentation":
this.pageNum = 9
break
case "For more information":
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Regards,
Muthuraj. D

Hi
Thanks a lot. I did not notice that .
Is there anyway to populate this popup menu item from the bookmark list? I did write these bookmarks and page numbers manually.
Regards,
Muthuraj. D

Save as pdf deleted bookmarks when combining pdf-files

Hello,
when I save several books each to a pdf-file with save as pdf (or printing to .ps and converting afterwards), the bookmarks are deleted when I combine the pdf-files with Acrobat. Only one bookmark for the 1st. file exists in the new pdf-file.
The reference of the bookmarks in the original generated file is e.g. "g3.619626".
These references are not anymore available in the combined files.
I've tried several settings before saving as pdf but nothing helped.
Ther are no problems of combining ordinary pdf-files with bookmarks if they are generated by other programs then Framemaker.
I need to combine files as well within a book, as "save to pdf" is not able, to generate one file with different pages sizes. I then need to generate a separate pdf-file of the pages with the for e.g. bigger page size and combine it afterwards.
In that project I'm working there will over all something between 1000 and 1500 pages from maybe 10 books with hunderts of bookmarks plus additionally separete pfd files to combine. So it's not an option to treat every bookmark before combining the pdf-files.
My system is FM11.02.384 / Acrobat Pro 11.0.3 / Windows 7 64 Bit

Never having had a need to do it, and Adobe documentation for Acrobat being what it is, I can't tell if AcroPro is supposed to be able to merge bookmarks when merging PDFs. It would be an unsurprising feature, and you do say it works on PDFs generated by means other than FM.
Here's a hack that might work, if the variable-page-size rendering turns out to be out of reach. You can batch* this.
Open each component PDF and re-save it with some otherwise harmless optimization (or even none). This will probably cause AcroPro to re-write the internal structures of each PDF, which might then be amenable to merged bookmarks when you re-open them for merging.
* We do a similar thing for a slightly different problem. We have a software-in-a-box XML publishing app that, at just some seats, is generating PDFs that are tagged for byte serving (fast web view), but are not in fact encoded for it. This causes AcroReader plugin and entire browser crashes for web end users. The s/w vendor can't even tell us where the option is for controlling that feature, because they get the PDF gen code from some other 3rd party. So we routinely batch process all generated PDFs, with, oddly enough, NO "commands" selected. The re-save alone fixes it.

Linking to a bookmark in a PDF File

Hello All,
In our Web project, we have a .PDF which opens when the user
clicks on the appropriate link. Is it possible to modify the link
so the PDF opens at a specific location. For other purposes, we
have inserted bookmarks in the PDF using Adobe 7.0 Professional.
I suspect, although not sure, we could have the RoboHelp link
point to a Redirect topic. However, I am not sure if we could
insert a Shortcut control and have it function in a Web Help
format. If not, what other alternatives are available. If a
Shortcut control is possible how do I identify the PDF bookmark in
the Program Parameters.
Cheers,
CRO

I tried the Google search and a lot of other things. No
complete success, but . . .
RoboHelp for Word will reliably generate a link to a pdf file
that opens the file at the top (ditto Robohelp for HTML). I.e., the
source .doc has
mytext!JumpHtml('C:/aFile.pdf')
in it. Then if you create a WebHelp file, the .htm file has
<a href="C:/aFile.pdf">mytext</a>
in it. It works. However, Robohelp does not seem to offer the
ability to specify a nameddest, i.e., a defined place anywhere in
the .pdf. You can type a nameddest into the souce .doc, i.e.,
selText!JumpHtml('C:/aFile.pdf#nameddest=sheep')
but then the WebHelp .htm has no corresponding href in it at
all. (But it works for WinHelp output, see below.) If you don't put
the nameddest in the source .doc, and instead yourself insert it
into the output WebHelp .htm, i.e.:
<a
href="C:/aFile.pdf#nameddest=sheep">selText</a>
then naturally it works. The runtime hotlink jumps to the
desired place inside the .pdf. So, there's one way to do it.
However, having to hand enter the link in the .htm is suboptimal -
RoboHelp *should* automate it.
One wrinkle is, if you hand enter the nameddest in the source
.doc, and then generate a WinHelp output (instead of WebHelp), that
seems to work as desired, provided you include the .pdf in the
baggage files and enable the special included .dll. So there's a
WinHelp solution that at least lets you enter the nameddest in the
source file, but it doesn't work for WebHelp. That difference makes
me think I'm missing some setup parameter.

Expand/Collapse all the Bookmarks in a PDF file

Hi,
This is my first message on the board :-)
I work with very large PDF files (i.e 2000 pages, 700 bookmarks on 5 or 6 levels!) and I'm looking for a script (Acrobat 9 Pro) allowing to expand/collapse all the bookmarks in a PDF file.
Thanks in advance for your valuable help,
Cheers
Antonella

The Acrobat Javascript Scripting reference (http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/sdk/AcroJS.pdf) describes how to use scripting to access bookmarks and how to open and close them, which is what you're looking for.
I suggest you read the reference and make a function that will do the job for you.
That's the way I would do it.
I don't think you can access the keyboard shortcuts "/" and "Shift + *" via scripting.
Torben.

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