Bookmarks
Bookmarks are navigational tools that make your PDF files easier to read. They are usually generated automatically
during the PDF creation.
Bookmarks are useful for users to mark a place in a PDF file, so users can return to it with ease. Or you may like to have
your own bookmark structure and new bookmark names. With Foxit PhantomPDF, you can easily nest, edit, or delete
bookmarks in a PDF file if the security settings allow.
Add a bookmark
1. Go to the page where you want the bookmark to
link to.
2. (Optional) If there is no bookmark in the document,
click Edit > Links > Bookmark , or click the New
Bookmark icon at the top of the Bookmarks
panel.
3. Select the bookmark after which you want to place
the new bookmark. If you don’t select a bookmark,
the new bookmark is automatically added at the end
of the bookmark list. Click Edit > Links > Bookmark,
or click the New Bookmark icon at the top of
the Bookmarks panel, or
right-click the selected bookmark and choose Add
Bookmark.
4. Type or edit the name of the new bookmark, and press Enter.
Tips:
1. If some of the bookmarks in the document have long names, you can right-click the Bookmarks panel and
choose Wrap Long Bookmarks, so that the long bookmark names will appear on multiple lines within the
Bookmarks panel. To unwrap, choose Don’t Wrap Long Bookmarks from the right-click menu of the Bookmarks
panel.
2. To add a bookmark, you can also right-click on the page where you want the bookmark to link to and choose Add
Bookmark. Before this, if you have chosen an existing bookmark (if any) in the Bookmarks panel, the newly added
bookmark will automatically be added right behind the existing bookmark (in the same hierarchy); if you haven’t
selected any existing bookmark, the new bookmark will be added at the end of the bookmark list.
Edit a bookmark
In Foxit PhantomPDF, you can rename a bookmark,
reset a bookmark’s destination, or customize the text
appearance of a bookmark with ease if the security
settings allow.
To rename a bookmark
Right-click the bookmark you want to rename in the
Bookmarks panel > Rename> type the new bookmark
name. Or you double click the bookmark you want to
rename and then type the new name.
To reset a bookmark’s destination
In the document pane, move to the location you
want to specify as the new destination.
(Optional) Adjust the view magnification.
Right-click the bookmark, choose Set
Destination and select Yes.
To customize the text appearance of a bookmark
In the Bookmarks panel, right-click the
bookmark > choose Properties.
In the Bookmark Properties dialog box, click the
Appearance tab, and select the font style and
color for the text.
Note: After defining a bookmark’s appearance, you
can set it as bookmarks’ default property by right-
clicking the bookmark and then selecting the option of Use Current Appearance as New Default.
To add an action to a bookmark
Right-click a bookmark and choose Properties.
In the Bookmark Properties dialog box, click Actions.
Choose an action from the Select Action menu and click Add, and then refer to the section of “Actions tab for the
button properties”.
To delete a bookmark, please do one of the following:
Select the bookmark you want to delete and click the Delete at the top of the
Bookmarks panel. (Ctrl-click to select more than one bookmark. To select a continuous group of bookmarks, click
one bookmark, then hold the Shift key and click the last bookmark.)
Right-click the bookmark you want to delete and choose Delete.
Note: Deleting a bookmark deletes all the bookmarks that are subordinate to it.
Move a bookmark
Select the bookmark (named “Bookmark A”) you want to move, and then do one of the following:
Hold the mouse button down and then drag “Bookmark A” icon directly to the desired place. The Line icon
shows the place where the icon will be located.
Right-click “Bookmark” icon and choose the Cut option > right-click the
bookmark(named “Bookmark B”) under which you want to place “Bookmark A”, choose “Paste after Selected
Bookmark” if you want to put “Bookmark A” after “Bookmark B”, which will be in the same hierarchy with
“Bookmark A”; or choose “Paste under Selected Bookmark” if you want to put “Bookmark A” under the “Bookmark
B”, which will be the parent bookmark.
Note: The bookmark links to its original destination in the document although it is moved.
Organize a bookmark hierarchy
A bookmark hierarchy is an outline or stratified structure that places some bookmarks within others. In Foxit
PhantomPDF, multilevel bookmark hierarchy can be defined by properly dragging the bookmark icon in the Bookmark
panel.
To expand or collapse a bookmark
Click the plus sign (+) next to the bookmark icon to show any children. Click the minus sign (-) to collapse the list. To
collapse all bookmarks, right-click any bookmark in the Bookmarks panel and choose Expand/ Collapse All Bookmarks
in the context menu. When no bookmarks are expanded in the Bookmarks panel, you can right-click any bookmark and
choose Expand/ Collapse All Bookmarks to expand all bookmarks.
