Editing Multiple PDF Bookmarks

[Shlomo Perets]

Karen,

You wrote:

>My Framemaker document contains dozens of academic subject area sections 
>that each contain similar headings. Those headings translate to bookmarks 
>when the document is converted to PDF. One such heading is for a faculty 
>roster. The head identified for bookmarking reads "Professors" but the 
>bookmark itself must read "Faculty." Since there are about 140 of these, 
>I'd like to be able to edit the bookmarks in a batch. Is there a way to do 
>this in Acrobat 9?
>
>Conditional text in the Frame file--to substitute "Faculty" for the 
>current head--does not seem to be the answer here, because showing it 
>would create a redundancy for the reader as well as alter pagination and 
>text flow.
>
>Any options?


No way to handle this in FrameMaker or in Acrobat (other than manual editing).

Using the FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers add-on, it is possible to 
specify bookmark text replacement -- From>To (for the entire bookmark 
text), or removing redundant strings (at the beginning of the bookmark 
text), see http://www.microtype.com/TimeSavers/TimeSaversDlg.pdf , Bmk 
Start tab). Once specified, such replacements apply automatically as part 
of the distilling process.


Shlomo Perets

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