View > Comments pane : manually added link not listed?

[bernard meunier]

Hi,
I have annotated a whole document and would like to summarize all added links & other comments
in a separate document.
The Comments pane allow exporting all comments but added links appears not to be listed.
Is there a way to do that? would it be a resonnable enhancement?
Regards
Bernard

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Bernard Meunier,

The Links are a special type of annotation, and they are not "summarized" as the links are invisible and have no content (they might be on top of some content - but themselves only have information for their placement and what actions to be done when you click them). So summarizing them is unlikely to happen, but using some JS you can get information for existing links.
The below code for example will list the number of links on each page, and the total for the whole document:

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var numLinks=0;
for ( var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)
{
var b = this.getPageBox("Crop", p);
var l = this.getLinks(p, b);
console.println("Number of Links on page " + p +" is " + l.length);
numLinks += l.length;
}
console.println("Number of Links in Document is " + numLinks);

You will need to open the PDF XChange Editor, load the file you need, press Ctrl-J to open the JS console and then copy paste the above, then click the "Run" button.
I tested the above script with a file and the result looked like:

Number of Links on page 0 is 0
Number of Links on page 1 is 0
Number of Links on page 2 is 44
...
Number of Links on page 767 is 37
Number of Links on page 768 is 50
Number of Links in Document is 4663

Regards,
Stefan

[bernard meunier]

Hi,
Thank you, I will investigate a bit an see what I can do.
regards
Bernard

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Glad to help Bernard!

Regards,
Stefan