Change bookmarks value with javascript

Do you have the Acrobat SDK with the JavaScript API documentation? The "name" property of a bookmark object can be changed via JavaScript:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/10/Acrobat10_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.21
0.html

You need to iterate over all bookmarks and then set the name approprately. The documentation for the "children" property has sample code that shows how to iterate over all bookmarks:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/10/Acrobat10_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.20
7.html

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Thanks Karl Heinz!

I absolutly need the Acrobat SDK or I can insert the java code into the JavaScript Editor integrated in the Acrobat X Pro?

The Acrobat SDK is mainly the documentation you need to work with Acrobat, plus sample programs. You can then either insert the JavaScript program into your PDF using Acobat, or (as you will probably do in this case) write a folder level script that would add a menu item or a tool in the Tools panel to in any text editor and save it in one of Acrobat's JavaScript directories.

You can also execute JavaScript in the JS console, but again, the documentation in the SDK will talk about all this. You can find the SDK here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat.html

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Do you mean that you want all the bookmarks in your files to be:
1
2
3
4
etc.
?

Do you only have a single level of bookmarks, or are there nested ones as well?
Which version of Acrobat do you have?

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Yes, I want this sequence

1

2

3

4

...

for each file.

For each file, an autonumber that starts by 1 and increases the value of 1 for each barcode.

Do you have Acrobat Pro?

I have only one level of bookmarks.

I have Actobat X Pro.

your code is good!
But I want to keep the text after the number value:

1_bookmark1
2_bookmark2
3_bookmark3
4_bookmark4

thanks again fo your help!

That's not what you said why I asked you if you wanted it to be just 1,2,3, etc.
You can read up on the various String methods in JS to see how you can achieve that. The split() method will be useful in this situation.

excuse me...
Can you say me the JavaScript code for to keep the bookmarks text?

Use the following script in your action instead of the first one. It uses a regular expression to extract the number and the remainder after the number.

for (var i=0; i<this.bookmarkRoot.children.length; i++)
{
var theName = this.bookmarkRoot.children[i].name;
// get the remainder after the numeric part at the beginning of the bookmark
var pattern = /(\d+)(_.+)/;
var match = pattern.exec(theName);
if (match.length >= 2)
this.bookmarkRoot.children[i].name = String(i+1) + match[2];
}

Karl Heinz Kremer

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The autonumber not works...

Then something on your system is different than on mine. What exactly do you mean by it does not work?

Excuse me Karl Heinz, your code is perfect!!!

I use the separator - instead of _

Excuse me again...

Thanks a lot, Karl Heinz and Gilad D!