Hello Community,
In xchange editor, we generate our bookmarks when merging various PDF files.
Now we would like to remove the first 4 characters from all bookmarks, as these are actually only used as a sorting criterion when naming the PDF files.
Is there a way to do this as a bulk change? Currently, we change each bookmark manually—a tedious task...
Thank you for your support.
diddi
Bulk renaming of bookmarks
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diddi8
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Bulk renaming of bookmarks
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Daniel - PDF-XChange
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Re: Bulk renaming of bookmarks
Hello, diddi8
On the bookmarks tab, we offer a "find and replace" function for renaming bookmarks in bulk. To replace the first few characters of all bookmarks you will likely want to enable the regex mode, and work from there to do so: I am afraid that I am not fluent in regex myself, so I cannot offer a string to accomplish this personally. Best of luck!
Kind regards,
On the bookmarks tab, we offer a "find and replace" function for renaming bookmarks in bulk. To replace the first few characters of all bookmarks you will likely want to enable the regex mode, and work from there to do so: I am afraid that I am not fluent in regex myself, so I cannot offer a string to accomplish this personally. Best of luck!
Kind regards,
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Re: Bulk renaming of bookmarks
Use the following regex to delete the first four characters
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Re: Bulk renaming of bookmarks
Hello, Mathew
Thank you very much Mathew!
Kind regards,
Thank you very much Mathew!
Kind regards,
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Re: Bulk renaming of bookmarks
Hello Daniel, hello Mathew,
This is exactly what I was looking for—and it works wonderfully.
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
diddi
This is exactly what I was looking for—and it works wonderfully.
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
diddi
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