Adding chapter markers that show on print.

[Krisaa]

Is there a way in acrobat pro to automatically add chapter markers to pages with the words "Chapter 1" "Chapter 2" etc, in a similar style as you would see in phonebooks etc, where there is a small black/grey box on the right hand side of every page, so that when you view the book withouth opening it, you can easily see every chapter marked out? 

I realise working with indesign this is an easy job with a master page, but all I have are finished .pdf files, so if there is a way to do it withouth placing it in indesign first that would be helpful. 

[Eric Dumas]

Hi

Can you confirm the version of the software and the operating system you are using?

Bates numbering will number the pages, Headers and footers are not much help either.

There are no Find/Replace for what you are trying to do.

You can always do it manually, maybe quicker than chasing the original

[Krisaa]

Windows 10, Acrobat XI Pro. 

Doing it manually seems to be the only soluction atm. 

[Bernd Alheit]

Does you printer support this?

[Krisaa]

Im afraid not. 

[Joel Geraci]

I understand what you are referring to. It's possible to do via scripting but it's not trivial. You'd essentially expand the page boundary on the right then use annotations to draw the tabs onto the pages, flatten them, then links on top of the tabs that will take you to each section.

Do you know JavaScript at all? 

[Rachel Kelly]

This is *exactly* what I'm trying to do now.  I have 7 days in Acrobat's Free Trial to make it happen!  ChatGPT said that I could apply a page template to a range of pages, but that does not appear to me to be how page templates work.  I am a professional JavaScript developer but have zero experience programming inside an Adobe app.  If it must be JS, I'll happily share whatever I develop in return for a point in the right direction! 

[try67]

How far did you get? And I wouldn't rely on ChatGPT (or any other AI) for this. We've seen them produce pretty wildly incorrect codes when asked to help with similar tasks.