Adding bookmarks to an interactive form?

[Former Community Member]

I am trying to add bookmarks to my navigation on my PDF form. I add the bookmarks in Acrobat and they work but when I save them and open them again the bookmarks are there but they don't work. Is this because it is a form? Any ideas on how I can get this done?

[Former Community Member]

I tried creating bookmarks from a button as follows (in JavaScript):

event.target.bookmarkRoot.createChild("my bookmark", "this.pageNum = 0;");

and it works even after I save, close and re-open the form in Acrobat Pro. Of course, if you open the form in Designer, save, close and then re-open in Acrobat, they won't be there anymore because annotations, such as bookmarks, get stripped-out when PDF documents are opened in Designer.



You might want to try dynamically creating the bookmarks every time the form is loaded.



I've attached two sample forms:
CreateBookmarksOnLoad.pdf which dynamically creates bookmarks when the form is loaded (note the guard form variable to prevent creating them every time a Layout event is fired) and
CreateBookmarks.pdf which creates bookmarks at the push of a button (you should be able to save, close and re-open this PDF
all within Acrobat and have the bookmarks still work.



Stefan

Adobe Systems

[Former Community Member]

These solutions would be perfect. The only problem I am running into is they don't work in Reader?



I am trying to recreate an interactive form that my boss found and it uses bookmarks in reader but I can't figure out how to get them to work even with the two options you attached.

[Former Community Member]

Unfortunately, the Bookmark object (which is used to create the bookmarks from JavaScript) isn't available in Reader (and you can't even Reader-Extend the form to get the Bookmark object).



If you need to have bookmarks in Reader, I suggest you use a different technique where you use
xfa.host.setFocus to set focus to text fields at different places on your form. This would act as a bookmark without actually being a Bookmark in Acrobat. See post #6 in the
Links Within PDF thread for an example.



Stefan

Adobe Systems