List Bookmarks with a Free Script (Updated for Acrobat 9)
This is an update of my List Bookmarks with a Free Script article which was for Acrobat 8 users.
The new script works with Acrobat 9 and now also includes page numbers.
Legal professionals use PDF bookmarks to mark important sections. Each bookmark goes to a different view or page in the document.
I do hear from quite a few customers who want to create a list of bookmarks found in a PDF.
For example:
Since Acrobat is extensible using JavaScript, you can create a bookmark listing like the one above (for free!) using the steps provided in this article.
The key is to install a tiny JavaScript sequence file which is accessed using the Batch Processing function of Acrobat 9 Pro.
Read on to…
- Download a free, pre-built sequence file
- Install the sequence file
- Create a new PDF which lists the bookmarks in your file
