Scroll down and click on the "Action Wizard" tool icon. Step 1 - Open Action Wizard Start Adobe® Acrobat® and open the "Tools" panel located on the main Acrobat toolbar. Prerequisites You need a copy of Adobe® Acrobat® Pro along with the AutoBookmark™ plug-in installed on your computer in order to use this tutorial.
Use "Action Wizard" to pre-configure the automatic TOC creation settings, that can then be executed with a single-click. Once an action is created, itĬan be executed either manually from the Adobe® Acrobat® Pro toolbar, or from a command-line batch file using the AutoBatch™ plug-in. "Actions" can be executed on multiple files at once, or on the contents of an entire folder. It allows you toĬreate a series of PDF processing commands (called "actions") with user-specific settings. The method below uses the Action Wizard tool (known as "Batch Processing" in earlier Acrobat versions) with the AutoBookmark™ plug-in to automate this procedure.
For more detail on how to customise TOC creation, click here. This example uses AutoBookmark™ to create a simple TOC for each document using default settings. The plug-in also offers detailed settings used to modify the visual appearance of the table of contents entries, and flexible page numbering options. The hierarchical table of contents is created from existing PDF bookmarks, and is either insertedĪs a new page into the corresponding file, or saved as a separate PDF document. Using Action Wizard to Create a Table of Contents for Multiple Documents Introduction This tutorial demonstrates how to automatically create a hyperlinked 'Table of Contents' (TOC) for multiple PDF documents at once.