Highlighting Specific Text That I Bookmark

[IvonedosSantos]

Hi

I  know how to create bookmarks in my PDF.

The problem is that when I click on a bookmark it takes me to the page where the bookmark is but does not highlight the specific section or word that I have bookmarked.

Please can you assist.

When I click on a bookmark I want the specific word or section that I bookmarked highlighted to make it easy to find on the page.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

That's not possible, unless a script is used to select the word or show/hide a comment. Bookmarks are not connected to the words you have selected when you create them. The application uses the text when naming the bookmark, but that's it. They only point to the area on the page where that text is located.

[IvonedosSantos]

Thank you for your reply. 

It's so frustrating as it used to be an option.

What is currently the best way to navigate to a very specific word using bookmarks or any other section to easily highlight what I am looking for

[try67]

I don't recall it ever working that way.

[IvonedosSantos]

What is the best way to navigate to a very specific word in a pdf or a  section within a pft.to easily highlight/link what I am looking for?

For eg.  I have a word "VEGETABLE" on page 1 of a pdf.  When I click on that word I want my document to specifically highlight/show me where that word appears on page 2 by highlighting the word to make it easy to find and link to.

[try67]

You would need to find out the index number of the word on that page, and then you would be able to use a script to jump to it and select it, like this:

this.selectPageNthWord(0, 10, true);

This will select word 11 on page 1 (note the page and word number indexes are zero-based).

[IvonedosSantos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXfT-QrQWlE

Look at 6.25 of this video.... See how the text is bookmarked and becomes highlighted?

[try67]

Interesting. I didn't see it doing it in the past. Maybe it's a new feature... I also don't see how it is done in the bookmark's Properties in the application. There's something going on behind-the-scenes to allow for it to happen.

[try67]

It's also not consistent at all. Sometimes it does it, and sometimes it doesn't, and I don't see a reason as to why. Very strange feature.

[try67]

In second thought I don't think this works at all. What happens in that video (and to me when I first tried it), is that the selected text remained selected after the bookmark was created, and when you click on another bookmark it doesn't "unselect" it, just jumps to another location, but if you click anywhere on the page, so that the text is unselected, then click the bookmark that is "pointing" to it, it jumps to that location but doesn't re-select the text.

[IvonedosSantos]

Thank you.