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Re: Bookmarks

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From: Olav Kvern
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:29
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Ben-- 

The only way to create bookmarks--short of scripting Acrobat and/or PDF hacking (which are topics we can explore, if you want<g>) is to use the InDesign TOC feature. It might be worth having your script generate an InDesign TOC just to get the bookmarks--and then rely on your own TOC-building script for the real TOC. 

Again, you can put the TOC on the last page of the document and then delete that page in Acrobat--the bookmarks will remain. 

re: "Olav, do you set policy on what features are exposed to scripting and how? You must have a laundry list of things you want fixed in version 3. Or would an updated scripting.rpln for version 2 ever be released?" 

I'm part of the team that specifies scripting features. Whether we "set policy" depends on a number of factors: engineering willingness, time, effort, and the phase of the moon.<g> We're working on new stuff, but I very much doubt that a new version of the scripting object library will appear before the next major version of the product. 

But making bookmarks more visible is high on my list. There are Acrobat tools that will convert hyperlink destinations into bookmarks, but they're very expensive. It would be nice to do it inside InDesign. 

Thanks, 

Ole
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