Is it worth cleaning up duplicate destinations?

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
September 14, 2025
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Ok, so I purchased a digital planner off of Etsy. It's a 1,900+ page document with hyperlinks all over the place connecting to other pages of the planner. Luckily, the creator was good enough to use destinations instead of page numbers, so I can add pages and move pages around without affecting the link. Yay! However, when I went to add my own destinations for the pages I'm adding I noticed there aew something like 17,000+ destinations listed. Most destinations have 8 or more duplicates. From what I can find, there's not a way to automate merging duplicate destinations, is that correct? I think it would be impossible to track these all down manually. How much is it going to affect my file size, processing speed, etc if I just leave the duplicates in? It would also be nice to rename the destinations, but again tracking down all the links that reference that destination might be next to impossible. Can I rename them without affecting whether the link works?

try67

Community Expert

If they all point to the same location I would just leave it as it is. It's not worth the time and trouble trying to remove such duplicates if the file works well, and the difference in file-size will be negligible.

mollykittiAuthor

Known Participant

Thank you!

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

I have to ask:

Is the digital planner built as an Acrobat PDF? If not, what's the name of the digital planner? What system are you running it on, with which version of operating system?

This forum is set up to answer questions about Adobe Acrobat, and to some degree working with PDF files. If the planner isn't done in/with Acrobat. You're taking a blind shot that someone here will be able to help you if it's not done with/run in Adobe Acrobat. Not to say that you won't get lucky literally making a shot in the dark here, but if isn't about Acrobat and/or PDFs, we're probably not going to be able to help you.

Randy

mollykittiAuthor

Known Participant

Yes, it is a .pdf and if you noticed, I'm asking specific questions about Adobe Acrobat, specifically the Adobe Acrobat destinations.

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

My apologies. I didn't see anything that said you were talking about PDFs in your post. I only saw you talk about a document. No reference of a PDF document. I'm sorry I misinterpreted what you were asking of me.

Sorry,

Randy

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