Problems Splitting a Document By Bookmarks

[halfprice06]

When I split a pdf with about 50 bookmarks by top level bookmark, and requesting it to be done with the bookmarks as file name, adobe is successfully creating the 50 something split pdf's with bookmark titles as file names.  However, most of the 50 pdfs are identical.  So somehow the sofware is reproducing the same image bookmark under different filenames. 

Not sure how to proceed.

[try67]

Can you share the file (via Dropbox, Google Drive or Adobe's Track & Send)?

[Thom Parker]

Which page is the identical page?  How were the bookmarks created?

The bookmark splitting tool assumes each bookmark is a destination in the file. Is this true?

I believe it also assumes each bookmark uses a proper destination, and not for example JavaScript code for navigating. Do you know if they are all proper destinations.

[zorker]

Hi Thom,

Hoping you can help me out...  I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro XI (version 11.0.23).  I have a PDF in which I created 9 bookmarks.  No prohibited characters are used in the bookmark names such as: \ / : * ? " < >  When I click on each of the bookmarks, the view jumps to the appropriate section of the PDF.

Problem: When splitting by top-level bookmarks, the 9 resulting files are all the exactly the same (the entire PDF)-- instead of different documents for each bookmark.

Here is the link to the PDF: 

ADOBE - Google Drive

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated

Kandi

[Thom Parker]

Ha ha, this pdf has only one page. One very long page that looks like several pages. There no pages to split, so all the resulting files are the same.

[zorker]

Hi Thom,

Thanks for responding so quickly-- and on a Saturday!  The only way I can think of to split this one long PDF page into separate pages is to duplicate the page 9 times and to then crop each page....

Yout thoughts?

Kandi

[Thom Parker · Accepted solution]

Do you know how it got this way in the first place?  The preferable method is to fix this at the source.  Otherwise the page content needs to be split, which is not an efficient process. Baring a special tool for this, cropping the pages is about as good as it gets. It's inefficient because cropping doesn't delete the content, it just hides it. You could get rid of the content by redacting it first, then cropping. This process could also be automated with a script, but it may not get the cut points on the pages correct. And it would only be worth doing if you had a large number of pages, or the process had to be repeated periodically.