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February 28, 2022
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Pro DC - how to synchronizing bookmarks shown with page selected?

  • February 28, 2022
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I  have inherited a large PDF with thousands of pages that someone previously bookmarked. I am going through the doc page by page, and updaing the bookmark descriptions. It would be an enormous help if Pro would "synchrnize" the bookmarks with the pages; i.e., as I go from page 1 to page 9,000, have Pro show the bookmark for each page.  This would essentially be the reverse of how bookmarks show the page they relate to.

 

I have used Pro for many, many years. But since the huge changes that came (10 years ago?) with DC, I have found things in it very hard to figure out. So I am hoping there is a setting somewhere in it I can turn on, and not that there is no way to have Pro show the bookmark related to the page selected.

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    Bernd Alheit
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    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 28, 2022

    At the bookmarks use the option "Expand Current Bookmarks" 

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    L23370334ofdkAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 28, 2022

    Thanks, but how does Expand Current Bookmarks keep my bookmarks synchronized with the pages?  When I  click on a bookmark, Adobe shows the page that's bookmarked. But if I scroll down from page 1 through the other 9000 pages, the bookmarks don't scroll down too. Or I go to a speicic page, the bookmarks do not jump to the one for that page.  How do I make Adobe "synchronize" bookmarks shown with the pages selected?

    Thx

     

    L
    L23370334ofdkAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 4, 2022

    Ok, now I understand. That works sort of. Would be even better (IMO) if Pro would just automoatically jump to the bookmark for each page (assuming one exists) when I click on the page.  I never understood why Pro doesn't do that automatically.  How do we request that feature be added? 

     

    My next project is to create folders by topic that I can put all these bookmarks in. Something that I can then collapse or expand as needed.  Any idea how to do that?

     

    Thanks again!


    Any info??? I've gotten pretty disgusted with how difficult it is to use Pro with huge files with hundreds of bookmarks.  I do not understand why the heck Adobe won't synchronizze bookmarks as you go from page to page. That Expand function helps, but only minutely - it you have thousands of pages in a PDF and hundreds and hundreds of bookmarks someone else created, the only solution is to have the bookmark for a page show when you click on the page. It doesn't do that, so it is a nightmare to use.

     

    By the way, how does the name "Expand the current bookmark" relate to the actual function?? It should be named something like "Jump to Bookmark for this page", "Show me the boookmark for the page I am on", etc. 

     

    Apologize for this rant, but it's IMO inexcusable that Adobe won't just put a simple option in to automatically show each bookmark as you page through a PDF.  That would save so much time.  But you're not answering, so I guess I'll have to start another thread. Ugh.

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