How do I keep 'lower' bookmarks when splitting a pdf by 'top' bookmarks?

[JonesDaySupport]

I have a 400+ page document.  I can split the pdf into the four sections named by the "top bookmarks", but doing so loses all of the other bookmarks.  Is there a way to keep the 'lesser' bookmarks when doing the split?  (Or, at worst, split the original pdf into sections based on the lesser bookmarks instead of the top ones?

Acrobat XI pro, btw

[YatharthS]

Hi jonesdaysupport ,

(Edited)

Would like to know how the document is originally created, was this created using Word & converted to pdf by retaining the Bookmarks.

Could please help what you are referring to 'Lesser Bookmarks' in this document.

Please elaborate what are your expectation on working with this document as well so that can help you further .

Regards,

Yatharth

[JonesDaySupport]

I don't know how the original document was created - we received it in pdf form.  I would guess it's a mix of formats  as there are scans, emails, possible word docs and excel charts in it.

There are 4 bookmarked sections (marked by "top bookmarks" - splitting the pdf by "top bookmarks" splits it at those points).  Within each of those sections, there are subsections (originally separate individual documents) marked by what I called "lesser" bookmarks.  I suppose "lower" bookmarks might have been more appropriate in relation to "top".  I've also seen "parent" and "child" bookmarks, though I'm not sure if those terms have other characteristics as well.  Like this, where ">" is a bookmark:

> SECTION 1

     > subsection 1 a

     > subsection 1 b

     > subsection 1 c

> SECTION 2

     > subsection 2 a

etc, etc

As far as expectations, I would like to be able to manage the printing the individual documents (the "subsections" or "lower" bookmarks) as individual files (via a batch print manager) instead of pieces of one big document.  I realize I could individually print them by manually going bookmark to bookmark, but as it is such a big pdf, I was hoping there was a less time consuming way to do it.  I had originally hoped that using the split function would split the pdf into the four main sections (it did) while keeping the "lower" bookmarks intact (it didn't) so I could then split those 4 new pdfs into their subsections as individual pdfs for subsequent printing via the batch program. 

[YatharthS · Accepted solution]

Hi JonesDaySupport ,

You may set the bookmarks under different sections & then you may Print those sections so you may get all Information at your end.

Regards,

Yatharth