[Bookmarking] Mass/Bulk Destination Setting SOLVED

[stjeremy]

I've inputted a list of bookmarks from a text file, and they have no destination set. I'd like to associate each individual bookmark with a different page in my document, but I don't want to have to right-click and 'Set Destination' for every individual bookmark and page? Is there an easier way to accomplish this?

Thanks.

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi, stjeremy

does the document have much structure? Have you tried "From Page Text"?

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And of course if it is a pattern you could use "Bookmark every N-th Page"

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is that the kind of thing you are looking for?

[stjeremy]

Thank you for the reply. It's a scanned document so I would have to OCR but then that can mess with some of the handwritten notes. also, bookmarking ever nth page doesn't allow me to utilize the bookmarks I inputted from the separate text file. That is, unless I'm doing it wrong.

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi, stjeremy

you are correct on both counts.

Perhaps the better approach is to include the page links in the original import?

A simple example might look like:

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Bookmark 1, goto:{1; Fit}
Bookmark 2, goto:{2; Fit}
Bookmark 3, goto:{3; Fit}

For more details on what can be included you can set a bookmark in the Editor GUI with whatever view you need, page, zoom etc, then export the bookmarks to file. It will produce a file with the syntax to follow in your example.

Does that help?

[stjeremy]

This works fantastically. Thank you!

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]