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CraigLa
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March 17, 2020
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Need PDF Bookmarks in PowerPoint Handouts Printed as PDFs

  • March 17, 2020
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I am creating PowerPoint handouts into PDFs using PowerPoint's Save As with Publish What option changed to Handouts. The PDF created is the 2 slide per page I want, but no Bookmarks. I am adding them manually (2 per page). but would like a it done automatically. I think if I can change the Publish What default in PowerPoint from Slides to Handouts ( how do you do that?), I could create PDFs using Acrobat with Create / PDF from File. Any thoughts?

 

I'm open to other methods, either on the PowerPoint or Acrobat side, to accomplish my goal quicker. 

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Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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March 17, 2020

It is possible to automatically create bookmarks with an Acrobat script. I've written many scripts and plug-ins to do this sort of thing. Is the text for the bookmarks is taken from the slides? Is this text in the same location on each slide?  A fair amount of effort would go into writing such a script. It would be easier to script if the list of bookmark titles was hand written. 

 

 

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CraigLaAuthor
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March 18, 2020

I may need to figure our Acrobat scripting. I am using the template slides so the titles are in the right areas in the slides. Yes, same location on each slide. I even tried a blank template with 3 slides; no luck. The bookmarks are included when I create the PDF using PDF from File in Acrobat, but because it did not get the tags from PowerPoint, it is not considered a tagged PDF for accessibility purposes. I could see about using Acrobat to create it and export the bookmarks and import them in the one built from PowerPoint for accessbility; if that is even possible. Thank you for your help. 

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