I'm so happy it's Friday! I survived another week at the new company. Today I spent 90% of the day trying to figure out how to use bookmarks in PDF. Sometimes the answer to a question is so simple but we keep looking the other way. I knew how to make a big PDF, and I should've just gone that route and applied the bookmarks to it. I didn't. Instead I followed the "bible" and tried to put 18 PDF's in a Adobe Bridge folder, and assigned bookmarks to each file in this "template." It worked, but not the way I wanted it. Every time I clicked on a bookmark I created, that specific page would come up just as the bookmarks / navigation panel disappeared. I had no way to go back to where I was, or get the bookmarks / navigation back on the screen. I would have to close the document and reopen it to see my bookmarks. I kept playing with the file, following the instruction, reading stuff online, thinking I should find out how to "copy" the bookmarks for each PDF. I tried this and tried that, but the result was always the same. Anyway I finally surrendered and asked Dave, who then told me Jose might have a solution. I im-ed him and of course he had the simplest and most straightforward answer. Make all the PDFs into one 100-page document, then bookmark the section as I see fit. It worked! The bookmark / navigation panel stayed on the screen and I was SO done with this file.
I am going to take it easy this weekend. Will do nothing :)
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