Text/regex when creating links from bookmarks SOLVED

[Mathew]

The "Create Links from Bookmarks" is a fantastic tool - my request is to be able to refine the search criteria for the bookmark text. Typically my bookmarks on drawings will be in the form [Sheet Number] [Sheet Name] thus:

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But I need to add links to the sheets based on just the sheet number that's scattered all over pages:

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If there were a way to list the bookmarks and assign custom search criteria, or do a general regex/split on the bookmarks (ie for my case it would be ^[A-Z ]+[0-9.]+) to get the search term for looking on the drawing?

There's a current workaround that I use: export all the bookmarks, do a find and replace on them to rename them all to just the sheet number, then do the links, then delete the bookmarks and re-import them. Just a lot of messing around for something that feels like it could be done programmatically.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Mathew

At the moment there is no way, but I did get approval to make a feature request for this item:

RT#6728: FR: Allow regex interpretation of bookmark text for "create links from bookmarks

Kind regards,

[Mathew]

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

[Mathew]

I just wanted to say "Thanks" - Since build 10.5.0.393 it works perfectly:

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[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]