Creating an index

[adwul62]

I have a number of lessons about something in PDF format (about 30 documents of 8-10 pages)

Would like to create a kind of 'index' similar to a book-index.

Am not sure how to proceed on that though.

What I just started doing right now is the following:

- I select paragraph headers and add them as bookmark

- also I select specific text within the paragraphs and add those as bookmark as well

Never used this method before.

Is this the right way to go?

The bookmarks are all -within- their documents.

If I want to have a total index (of all 30 documents), how am I to proceed then?
Should I combine all the 30 documents first and then start bookmarking within the 'combined' document?

Thanks.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Yes, combining them is the best approach, in my opinion.

After you've added the bookmarks you can even create a clickable Table of Contents page with the links to all the different parts of the file. You can do that using this tool I've developed, for example: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Create Table Of Contents (TOC) in a PDF file from Bookmarks