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Originally Posted by MidknytOwl
The three books I tried this on it deleted all the bookmarks, which I remade so I had a table of contents. However, after putting them on my reader the table of contents links work - as in if I'm on the table of contents page of the book (not from the reader's table of contents, but the actual book page), I can button down to a section and hit enter and it goes to it. So that part carries over at least, which was a pleasant surprise for me.
Or maybe it's not connected to the PDF and always works? I wouldn't know. And probably shouldn't be tryingto figure out how to explain what I'm thinking at 1:30 in the morning...hopefully you got the idea of what I was trying to say.  |
Yes, unfortunately all the metadata, including bookmarks and "named destinations," disappear with this method. If there are links inside the text, they will stop working if they're based on "named destinations", so you have to rebuild them. If they're based on going to a specific page, though, they continue to work.
You can actually copy the Bookmarks over to the new file by doing the "Document ... Pages ... Replace" trick detailed
here, but the "named destinations" have to be redone by hand.
To do this, while you're in the original PDF, go to "View ... Navigation Tabs ... Destinations" and then click on "Options ... Scan Document." If nothing appears in the window (despite the "sorting..." at the bottom of the window), there are no named destinations in the document. If there is anything in the window, then click on "Options ... Sort by Page" to see the order they occur in the document. Then you need to write down or screen capture or somehow preserve the list of named destinations, because Adobe will use the same window to display the named destinations in the new document -- you can't leave it open and edit the new document's named destinations at the same time.
Then open the new document. The named destinations window will stay open, so go to "Options ... Scan Document" again. You have to do this to enable adding new named destinations. Once you do this, you can click on the "New Destination" button and add a new destination that points to the current page. So take a look at your list of named destinations in the old document, press ctrl-shift-N to go to each page, and add and rename each named destination when you're on the page it points to. When you're done, save the PDF file and it's all good.
Fun stuff! Clearly it will be much easier when
Iheartcabbages's crack is adapted for PDFs, but this is at least better than the old screenshot/OCR method...