How to automate adding bookmarks that open other documents?

[billv81356552]

I have an archive of about 100 magazines in individual PDF files that I want to distribute, along with with relevant indexes. Each separate issue has bookmarks for its contents and I also have title, author and volume indexes for the whole collection. I want each magazine to include navigation to all these indexes but I'm really not sure I'm approaching the problem the right way.

The approach I've taken is to add bookmarks to each magazine before its table of contents: one entry each for of the volume, author and title indexes with the action for each to Open a file. This works when I add by hand but it will take a *long* time to add to every magazine. I've tried Javascript and can automatically add the extra bookmarks but I can't add an action to open a file: it seems all I can do via the JS API is to run a Javascript and I've seen comments that this doesn't work on tablets or phones, and in any case it presumably needs all the recipients to have enabled JS.

An alternative would be to create an extra page of links that can be included in each magazine that itself can have a "Navigation" bookmark, but this would require an extra click and seems clunky!

I'd really appreciate suggestions on how best to handle this - many thanks.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

There isn't really much that we can offer. You are correct that the action associated with bookmarks created using a script can only be to execute a script. If you want actions of another type you will need to use a plugin or a stand-alone tool. It can't be done using a script.

[billv81356552]

Rats! Thanks for the quick reply, I think I'll have to live with doing it manually...it would take longer to get to grips with plugins.

[try67]

If you're interested in hiring someone to develop a standalone tool that will do it, feel free to contact me privately (try6767 at gmail.com). I've developed similar tools in the past, so it should not be a problem.