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These hacks will show you ways to work with groups of documents, adding features and creating supporting frameworks for managing multiple documents....

It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The bookmarks created by this JavaScript aren't PDF bookmarks that get saved with the document. They behave more like web browser bookmarks in that they enable you to quickly return to a specific PDF...

Sure, you can bookmark the PDF document, but if that document is 300 pages long, your bookmark isn't helping you very much. The problem is that the browser doesn't know which PDF page you are viewing; it leaves those details to Acrobat or Rea...

This makes it harder to organize a collection. To solve this problem, I developed an Acrobat plug-in that can create Windows shortcuts that open specific PDF pages. However, it works only after you add some special Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)...

Now let's create a complete tree of shortcuts, each representing a PDF bookmark, such as those in Figure 2-3. Organize them in folders and use the Windows File Explorer to navigate your PDF collection. It works with local and online PDF files. ...

Keywords can play a valuable role in your strategy by giving you insight into a document's topics. Of course, a document's headings, listed in its Table of Contents, provide an outline of its topics. Keywords are different. Derived from the d...

Search is essential for utilizing document archives. Search can also find things where you might not have thought to look. The problem is that Windows search doesn't know how to read PDF files, by default. We present a couple of solutions. ...

An HTML portal into a PDF document should describe the document, and it should link readers directly to the sections they might need. This hack uses the information locked in a PDF to create its portal page, as shown in Figure 2-12. We automa...

These directory portals list document titles, authors, and modification dates, a layer up from the document portals created in [Hack #21] . They offer hyperlinks to each PDF's document portal and to neighboring directories. Written in PHP,...

This level of care generally is not possible. In any case, some documents inevitably get filed into the wrong categories. Here is a pair of Bourne shell scripts that measure the similarity between two PDF documents. You can use them to hel...