Editing Multiple PDF Bookmarks

[Karen Robbins]

Hi Baruch,

This seems like an excellent possibility--I'll give it a try!

Much appreciated,

Karen

>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 
><<mailto:karendesign at gmail.com>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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