April 2, 2010
While I was at the ABA Techshow, an attorney showed me a hyperlinked set of documents and exhibits his firm used in mediation.
This well-organized PDF apparently scared the pants off the large insurance company at the table. The result? A million dollar payday for the client!
One benefit of creating a nicely bookmarked and hyperlinked document is that the process itself captures your thinking about the best way to present the case.
In this article, I’ll cover the basics of hyperlinking in Acrobat.
However, to set the table, I’ll also cover how to combine several documents together. From there, we’ll use both bookmarks and links to achieve the objective of creating a well organized document.
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December 1, 2009
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
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