Adobe PDF file problem

Roger Osbourn · Post by **Roger Osbourn** » 23 Sep 2004 9:20 am

Ha friends,I need some info,please.My supplier is cutting back on sending me printed price sheets.Now their sending me Adobe PDF files on disc to open on my computer.I've loaded that and it's a way of checking prices,however the file is over four thousand pages and it takes some time to find the page I'm looking for.Now here is why I'm asking for your help.The Adobe Acrobat Reader program won't let me bookmark the pages.I've looked at Acrobat Standard and Professional programs,that will allow me to bookmark the file but the programs are quite expensive when all I need to do is mark some file pages.Does anyone have any suggestions.Please

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Les Pierce · Post by **Les Pierce** » 23 Sep 2004 11:57 am

It looks like your supplier will have to start adding the Bookmarks to the file, for you. Otherwise, it seems you will be limited to using the "Find" feature.

Les

Will Holtz · Post by **Will Holtz** » 23 Sep 2004 12:39 pm

I've got a little trick that takes a little bit of work, but might be worth while for you.

If you have the Acrobat Reader web browser plugin installed, you can manually add bookmarks to your web browser that will open the PDF document up to specific pages. Say I have a file C:\documents\bigfile.pdf and I want to make a bookmark to page 1000. Open your web browser (I'll assume Internet Explorer). In the location bar input file://c:/documents/bigfile.pdf#page=1000 hit Enter so that the pdf opens. The from the menus select "Favorites | Add to favorites...". Enter a discriptive name in the dialog box that pops up and then hit Okay. Now you should have a bookmark in your web browser that will open the PDF to the page you want.

I realize this isn't an ideal solution, but it is a free one that might work for some situations.

Gary Shepherd · Post by **Gary Shepherd** » 24 Sep 2004 2:39 pm

Maybe OpenOffice can do something with it.
www.openoffice.org. If not, it's a great program to have anyway. It's just like Microsoft Office but without all the usual Microsoft Lisence crap.

OpenOffice has a built in .pdf export. I'm not sure if it will import .pdf files but it's worth checking out.

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Will Holtz · Post by **Will Holtz** » 24 Sep 2004 4:24 pm

Open Office is a great free piece of software that I use often, but it only does pdf export, not import.