Splitting PDFs while preserving bookmarks

I have a long PDF that i put mutliple levels of bookmarks into but now it is too large for me to upload. If I split it by the top level bookmarks I lose all the other bookmarks in the new file. Is there a way to do this without having to rebookmark the new files?

You can do it by deleting the pages you don't want in each file, which will preserve the bookmarks structure.
This process could also be automated using a script.

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Split PDF Files by Bookmarks

Can anyone please let me know how do I split PDF Files by bookmark using Java Script.
I am making a Visual Basic utility to read the bookmarks in PDF Files and split them based on the bookmarks. I am able to split the PDF Files by using Arts PDF Split Pro. However since I am already using Adobe Standard, I would like to do it with Adobe itself.
Thus, I pay license for only one software and not two.
Thanks
Rahul

I couldn't find much information online about this myself, but hammered away until it worked. You should easily be able to adjust it for your needs.
My sources:
Adobe IAC Developer Guide
Adobe IAC API Reference
Adobe JS API Reference
Adobe Acrobat and VBA – An Introduction | Karl Heinz Kremer's Ramblings
UtterAccess Discussion Forums > Splitting Pdf Files
Private Sub extractBookmark()
Dim AcroApp As AcroApp, AVDoc As AcroAVDoc, PDDoc As AcroPDDoc, PDBookmark As AcroPDBookmark, AVPageView As AcroAVPageView
Dim newPDF As AcroPDDoc, mergePDF As AcroPDDoc
Dim jso As Object, BookMarkRoot As Object
Dim masterPath As String, testName As String, i As Variant, bookmark As Variant
Dim startN As Integer, endN As Integer, nPages As Integer, totalP As Integer
Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set AVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
Set PDDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
Set PDBookmark = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDBookmark")
masterPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\MasterDocument.pdf"     'Path of the PDF containing the bookmarks to be extracted
AVDoc.Open masterPath, vbNull
Set AVPageView = AVDoc.GetAVPageView
Set PDDoc = AVDoc.GetPDDoc
Set jso = PDDoc.GetJSObject
Set BookMarkRoot = jso.BookMarkRoot
bookmark = jso.BookMarkRoot.Children
totalP = PDDoc.GetNumPages
'Loop through the 10 bookmarks in MasterDocument.pdf and get the starting page # of each. This # has to be changed to the # of bookmarks in your pdf. Or write something to count the bookmarks and use that variable. "productName" is a global variable for my specific project... You'll need to revise this for your purpose.
For i = 0 To 9
    If bookmark(i).Name = productName Then
        PDBookmark.GetByTitle PDDoc, bookmark(i).Name
        PDBookmark.Perform AVDoc
        AcroApp.Exit
        startN = AVPageView.GetPageNum
        If i < 9 Then
            PDBookmark.GetByTitle PDDoc, bookmark(i + 1).Name
            PDBookmark.Perform AVDoc
            AcroApp.Exit
            endN = AVPageView.GetPageNum
            nPages = endN - startN
        Else
            nPages = totalP - startN
        End If
    End If
Next
PDDoc.Close
'This part will also need to be modified. I am inserting the bookmarks into an already made PDF (global variable for me "fName"). You'll want to create a new pdf.
Set newPDF = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
Set mergePDF = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
newPDF.Open fName & ".pdf"     'This line needs changing for your purpose. Probably could be.... newPDF.Create
mergePDF.Open masterPath
newPDF.InsertPages 0, mergePDF, startN, nPages, 0
newPDF.Save PDSaveFull, fName & ".pdf"
newPDF.Close
mergePDF.Close
End Sub

Script to Split PDF files on Bookmarks

I'm totally new to Java scripting. What I'm looking for is a script I can run from batch processing with professional that will look at a collection files in s directory and split ech one of them on their bookmarks into smaller files.
The bookmarks are all based on the page so it is possible to use the bookmark object's "execute" method to execute the bookmark action and pickup the page number.
I read that last part somewhere. If someone can give me a reference to a thread or just some code to get me started that would help. Thanks,
Josh

5 years later... hopefully this helps someone out there.
I couldn't find much information online about this myself, but hammered away until it worked. My code is for a slightly different purpose, but you should easily be able to adjust it for your needs.
My sources:
Adobe IAC Developer Guide
Adobe IAC API Reference
Adobe JS API Reference
Adobe Acrobat and VBA – An Introduction | Karl Heinz Kremer's Ramblings
UtterAccess Discussion Forums > Splitting Pdf Files
Private Sub extractBookmark()
Dim AcroApp As AcroApp, AVDoc As AcroAVDoc, PDDoc As AcroPDDoc, PDBookmark As AcroPDBookmark, AVPageView As AcroAVPageView
Dim newPDF As AcroPDDoc, mergePDF As AcroPDDoc
Dim jso As Object, BookMarkRoot As Object
Dim masterPath As String, testName As String, i As Variant, bookmark As Variant
Dim startN As Integer, endN As Integer, nPages As Integer, totalP As Integer
Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set AVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
Set PDDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
Set PDBookmark = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDBookmark")
masterPath = ActiveWorkbook.Path & "\MasterDocument.pdf"     'Path of the PDF containing the bookmarks to be extracted
AVDoc.Open masterPath, vbNull
Set AVPageView = AVDoc.GetAVPageView
Set PDDoc = AVDoc.GetPDDoc
Set jso = PDDoc.GetJSObject
Set BookMarkRoot = jso.BookMarkRoot
bookmark = jso.BookMarkRoot.Children
totalP = PDDoc.GetNumPages
'Loop through the 10 bookmarks in MasterDocument.pdf and get the starting page # of each. This # has to be changed to the # of bookmarks in your pdf. Or write something to count the bookmarks and use that variable. "productName" is a global variable for my specific project... You'll need to revise this for your purpose.
For i = 0 To 9
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        PDBookmark.Perform AVDoc
        AcroApp.Exit
        startN = AVPageView.GetPageNum
        If i < 9 Then
            PDBookmark.GetByTitle PDDoc, bookmark(i + 1).Name
            PDBookmark.Perform AVDoc
            AcroApp.Exit
            endN = AVPageView.GetPageNum
            nPages = endN - startN
        Else
            nPages = totalP - startN
        End If
    End If
Next
PDDoc.Close
'This part will also need to be modified. I am inserting the bookmarks into an already made PDF (global variable for me "fName"). You'll want to create a new pdf.
Set newPDF = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
Set mergePDF = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
newPDF.Open fName & ".pdf"     'This line needs changing for your purpose. Probably could be.... newPDF.Create
mergePDF.Open masterPath
newPDF.InsertPages 0, mergePDF, startN, nPages, 0
newPDF.Save PDSaveFull, fName & ".pdf"
newPDF.Close
mergePDF.Close
End Sub

Excel to PDF while preserving calculation/date functions

I am developing electronic chemotherapy ordersets for my pediatirc hospital. I am interested in converting them to PDFs that preserve the calculations and data validation functions (drop-downs). I believe LiveCycle will allow me to to do this, but any advice that you havwe would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry, LiveCycle doesn't have capability to preserve functions while converting ms excel file to pdf. LiveCycle yields out a pdf with the data which is there in excel at the time of conversion.
Though, you might be aware, using livecycle you can create automated processes which will help you in fasten up your business process.
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Split PDF following preserving existing bookmarks

Hello,
Is it possible to split a PDF using Acrobat XI by top level bookmarks, while retaining existing bookmarks in the resulting files?
With the default split it creates the new PDF's, but looses the bookmarks.
Thanks for any suggestions.
PS: I am on a Mac platform

If it happens always at a specific location check if there's something out
of the ordinary with that bookmark. For example, does it contain any weird
characters in its name? Is it identical to another bookmark (or even to the
name of the document itself)?
I would think the application could handle those situations, but maybe it
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I currently have a library of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of TIF documents. We're going to switch document management programs so I figure this is an opportunity to cut the files over to a more user friendly format like PDF (everybody hates TIF).
I need the filenames to remain the same since this library of files is indexed by filename.
Is there any way to do this automatically? Manually cutting over each file is not plausible.
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Converting from Pages to PDF preserving bookmarks

Hallo everybody,
I'm new in this forum site.
I've a big and complex Pages files and I want to create a PDF version with bookmarks architecture embedded in.
If I print or export the .pages file I obtain a .pdf file with the items in the summary converted in hyperlinks, but not the pdf bookmarks structure.
There's a way to create it automatically (put bookmars manually pre/post convrsion is not possibile)?
In case I have Acrobat Professional 8 also)?
If someone can help me, I'll be glad, thank you.
/Gio

Hi Gio,
Yes, you can use Adobe Acrobat Professional to add a Table of Contents to the PDF.
Or, you can use PDFOutliner, a $5 app on the Mac App Store, which makes it much easier to *automatically* build & edit the table of contents in your PDF.
Disclaimer: I am the developer of PDFOutliner.

Split/Extract pages by bookmarks

I have created a script which will successfully split the pdf at the first bookmark.
I need for the script to split all bookmarks from the pdf.
I have modifed the script but the console reports the following error:
TypeError: bookmarkRoot.children[i] is undefined
Can someone please provide assistance to modify the script to split all bookmarks from the pdf?
Script to split the pdf at the first bookmark - this works!
if (this.bookmarkRoot.children!=null)
var bm = bookmarkRoot.children[0].execute();
var bmname = bookmarkRoot.children[0].name;
this.extractPages({nStart:bm, cPath: "/C/Temp/"+bmname+".pdf"});
Script to split all bookmarks in the pdf - this does not work!
if (this.bookmarkRoot.children!=null)
for (var i=0; i < this.bookmarkRoot.children.length; i++)
var bm = bookmarkRoot.children[i].execute();
var bmname = bookmarkRoot.children[i].name;
this.extractPages({nStart:bm, cPath: "/C/Temp/"+bmname+".pdf"});
Thank you!

Thank you for your advice.
I have placed the curly brackets after the "for command" and the script will rename the split files as the bookmark names.
There is a problem with the var bm = this.bookmarkRoot.children[i].execute(); part of the script.
The script splits all the bookmarks at page 1 and not the correct page associated with the bookmark names.
My thoughts are that the bookmark execute command may need to be recursive to work??
The script has been modified for recursive and the console reports back as undefined and does not split the pdf at the bookmarks.
Can you please advise if I am going in the right direction in getting the file to split correctly:
function splitBookmarks (bm, nLevel)
if (bm.children!=null)
for (var i=0; i < bm.children.length; i++)
var bmd = splitBookmarks(bm.children[i], nLevel + 1);
var bme = bmd.execute();
var bmname =bm.children[i].name;
this.extractPages({nStart:bme, cPath: "/C/Temp/"+ bmname +".pdf"});
Thanks!

How to split PDF file by pages

Is there any programming way to split PDF into pages, say one PDF file per page or specify page range to split PDF file?
Thanks for your help.

Yes it does. It disassembles pdf1 by extracting pages 1-3 and disassembles pdf2 by extracting pages 4-5. Then re-assembles the two subsets into a new PDF.
You could extract page1 from pdf1 only and create a pdf, then page2 of pdf1 into a different PDF using something similar to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DDX xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/DDX/1.0/">
<PDF result="Final.pdf">
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</PDF>
<PDF result="Final2.pdf">
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</PDF>
</DDX>
You can also use the PDFFromBookmarks tag to generate a new document for each level 1 bookmark created in a PDF.
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Advice for using Acrobat/PDF to preserve 110-year-old book

I am a volunteer on a project for our historical society. The only known copy of a rare book from the early 1890's was found containing valuable historical and genealogical data (10,000 names which we indexed) plus woodcut portrait images. It will be an extremely important and popular resource if we can get it into a universal format such as PDF. I really need EXPERT advice.
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> We have been trying to combine the 256 full-page tiff images by pasting
> them into MSWord documents containing 20 of the page images each, and then
> making PDFs of each 20-page document.
Word might be introducing it's own compression into the workflow (blurring
the image, data loss), and it does not store this type of data efficiently.
Instead of using Word, I would recommend using Irfanview (freeware) to
combine the 256 TIFF files into a single multi-page TIFF file
(View/Multi-page images/Create Multi-page TIFF...). Use the LZW compression
option (no data loss) in Irfanview when combining to keep the file size down
(that's if there are any color or grayscale images, otherwise use CCITT Fax
4 if they are all monochrome).
You can then open and print the multi-page TIFF from Irfanview to Acrobat to
get a complete PDF file. You can experiment with different compression
settings when printing the TIFF to PDF. You can disable image compression
and downsampling when creating the PDF to preserve image quality, but you
will end up with a pretty large file (will people be downloading it from a
web site?). If the images are grayscale or color then try JPEG medium
compression with 200 dpi downsampling as a starting point and see how that
looks. To save time when testing compression settings, just print one
typical page from the project. Then you will know what settings to use when
printing the entire 256 page file to PDF.
Also the multi-page TIFF, like a single page one, would be a pretty good
option as an archive format (and all the pages will be in order in a single
file).

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CS4 Premium Design Edition, Win XP
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I am also curious to know if/why Adobe actually removed basic functionality without replicating or replacing it in their other software. I really want to know: which recent, currently supported Adobe product
should I be using in order to regain this functionality? Or do Adobe no longer produce a geniuinely comprehensive .gif-editing application?
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How can I process a linearly converted raw file while preserving color?

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As for applying the gamma curve, I guess the best and only way in Photoshop is to create a Levels adjustment and place a 2.2 in the middle (gray) input box. However, I read in http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/hybrid-conversion.shtml that a 4.75 value should be used... Why? Is the number placed there not correspond to the gamma being applied?
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BOILERPLATE TEXT:
If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
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machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
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A screen shot could be very helpful too.
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The following take the XML from source.xml and outputs it to DEST_filename with attributes in a-z order
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You can't. The reason is, the XML Recommendation explicitly says the order of attributes is not significant. Therefore conforming XML serializers won't treat it as if it were significant.
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How to print an excel file (2010 version) with multiple tabs into a pdf file with bookmarks (acrobat 9). I was able to do this easily using excel (2007 version).

Recently I got a new laptop, with excel 2010 version and acrobat 9 standard.
I could no longer print (save as) an excel file with multiple tabs into a pdf file with bookmarks.
My old computer has excel 2007 version and acrobat 9 standard.
Print an excel file into pdf with bookmarks was a piece of cake.
Both machine has the same add-in -- Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM addin
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You need to upgrade Acrobat to a newer version.
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