Feature Request: Copy bookmarks/contents as text

[Ludwig]

Hi there,

at the moment it is possible to copy the bookmarks/contents-structure and to paste it into another document. I would also like to have the option to copy this structure as simple text to the clipboard in order to paste it into another application (text-document or my reference management software for instance). Can this be realised?

Thanks
Ludwig

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Hi Ludwig,

it easily can be done using simple JavaScript (see below; it is taken from PDF JS Reference). When your document is active, open the JavaScript console (press Ctrl+J shortcut), paste the proposed JS code in the console and run it (using corresponding button on the toolbar). When script is finished, you will have a dump of all your boomarks in a plane text, and can select it, copy and use whenever you need.

HTH

Code: Select all

function DumpBookmark(bkm, nLevel)
{
  var s = "";
  for (var i = 0; i < nLevel; i++) s += " ";
  console.println(s + "+-" + bkm.name);
  if (bkm.children != null)
    for (var i = 0; i < bkm.children.length; i++)
      DumpBookmark(bkm.children[i], nLevel + 1);
}
console.clear(); console.show();
console.println("Dumping all bookmarks in the document.");
DumpBookmark(this.bookmarkRoot, 0);

[Ludwig]

Works great - thanks a lot!

[Will - Tracker Supp]

[kotlmg]

in the same way is there any code to copy each line of text file as bookmark in pdf file.
for each line there should be one bookmark in pdf.

thanks a lot in advance.

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi kotlmg,

I don't personally believe that this is possible, programatically, but I will ask one of the Developers to weigh in, as they would know far than myself.

It's about 11pm (Sunday) for them, so it will be a few hours until they are able to comment.

Cheers,

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

JavaScript in PDF has no access to external files, so, it cannot read external text file.