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justinm39103228
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Apr 19, 2016 2:14 AM UTC
Question

Batch Sequence - Renaming Bookmarks

Hi,

Complete JS noob here. Whenever I have an issue I just google scripts and copy and paste them and adjust them accordingly - I have never written one on my own.

So if anyone is feeling nice enough to write an entire script that I can just copy and paste (and tweak) for this, THANK YOU!

So what I want to do is to automate the sequential renaming of bookmarks. I have created a PDF consisting of other PDFs and have used the built-in Acrobat features to automatically create bookmarks. Instead of having to manually rename all these bookmarks, is there a script out there that can do this? I need to make the bookmarks sequential, for example:

TAB 1

TAB 2

TAB 3

TAB 4

The bookmarks are already in the right spots, all I need to do is rename them similarly to the naming convention used in this example.

    20 replies

    GraceMoyles
    Participant
    Jul 5, 2018 11:04 AM UTC

    This is such a good question. Have you found the answer ?

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    BarlaeDC
    Community Expert
    BarlaeDCCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    Jul 5, 2018 1:23 PM UTC

    Hi,

     

    It is pretty simple to do this, the documentation pretty much gives you all the code, but here you go

     

     

    var myBookMarks = this.bookmarkRoot;

    for ( var i = 0; i < myBookMarks.children.length; i++)

    {

        myBookMarks.children[i].name = "Tab" + i;

    }

     

    Just add this to a button and you are good to go, you could even make it a application level script but you would need to change line 1 as the this object wouldn't point to a document.

     

    Hope this helps

     

    Malcolm

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    descentfan1975
    descentfan1975
    Participating Frequently
    Sep 23, 2022 1:43 AM UTC

    I know this is an old question, but I have a similar issue. I want to strip out parts of all the bookmarks. See the attached file....I want to remove the "22115-Safeway Manning CFS SHOP PLANS-" from every bookmark and just keep the S101, S201, etc.

     

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    gkaiseril
    Inspiring
    Apr 19, 2016 3:46 PM UTC

    When I have combined PDFs I always get an additional bookmark with the source PDF's name. How do you want to handle this bookmark?

    It is possible to remove these bookmarks with JavaScript.

    http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=RemovingfilenamebookmarkscreatedbyAcrobat&gid=6881

    Removing filename bookmarks created by Acrobat​

    The script puts all the bookmarks into an array and only adds bookmarks that do  not have a file name ending in ".pdf". You could rename the bookmark as part of the process adding the bookmark to the array.

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