Editing Multiple PDF Bookmarks

[Baruch Brodersen]

Karen,
I think the best work flow is to work exclusively with the source Frame
documents and never resort (as a standard workflow process) to editing the
final PDF.

1. You want to do is have the Professors heading *look* like a Heading 1 for
text purposes, but you don't want it to generate a "Professors" bookmark.
   i. Create a new format based on H1 (or whatever it is) and do not use it
to generate a bookmark.
2. Now the Professors bookmark goes away, and you need to generate a Faculty
bookmark in its stead.
  i. Create and anchored frame in the "Professors" heading. I like
to position these frames Outside the Column so that they don't interfere
visually with the text on the page.
  ii. Inside the anchored draw a textbox, and type "Professors"
  iii.. Create a new paragraph format for Professors, and use it as the same
level as the Faculty bookmark formally was in your PDF Setup.
3. Now "Faculty" will not appear as a bookmark and Professors will. This is
great, except now you have a textbox hanging off the Faculty heading that
says Professors. That doesn't look good. Here's what you do for that: make
it invisible.
  i. Define a color called INVISIBLE, and then use Color Views to actually
make it invisible. (Check Frame's Help if this throws you.)
  ii. Redefine the Professors paragraph format so that the font color is
INVISIBLE, and voila, Professors is gone from the page. (Some people use
White instead of an invisible color. That will work only if your documents
are always printed on white paper. If the paper is off-white or colored,
you'll run into problems.)
  iii. If you find you need to edit the text in the anchored frame, redefine
the color to Red or something else, and then change back to Invisible when
you're done.

Lastly, I'd urge you to get Shlomo Perets' TimeSavers utility. It's very
powerful and is worth its weight, as the saying goes.

Best,

Baruch Brodersen
Technitext Documentation


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Karen Robbins <karendesign at gmail.com>wrote:

> Frame Gurus:
>
> 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?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Karen Robbins
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