If your document is a tagged PDF document, you can add bookmarks from the structural information of the document elements (such as headings and paragraphs), which will help you easily navigate and work on the document. You can create a tagged PDF from a document that can be structured in its authoring application (such as Microsoft Word); but if you do not have access to an authoring application, you can tag a PDF any time with Foxit PDF Editor. See also Tagged PDF.
To add tagged bookmarks, do as the following:
- Go to the Bookmarks panel in the navigation pane.
- Click the Options menu and choose New Bookmarks from Structure…. If your document is not a tagged PDF, the option is greyed out and not available.
- In the pop-up dialog box, select the structure element you want to create tagged bookmarks from. To select multiple elements, Ctrl-click or Shift-click the elements you need; to select all elements, click the Select All button in the dialog box. To unselect all the elements you selected, click Clear All.
- Click OK. Then the tagged bookmarks are created and nested under a new bookmark named “Untitled” by default.
Tip: For tagged bookmarks, you can extract the corresponding pages in the PDF to generate a new PDF document, or remove the corresponding pages from the PDF. Please do as the following:
- In the Bookmarks panel, select the target bookmark(s).
- Click the Options menu and choose Extract Page(s)/ Delete Page(s), or right-click the selected bookmark and choose Extract Page(s)/ Delete Page(s).
- If you choose Extract Page(s) in Step 2, a new PDF is created from the extracted pages and opened in Foxit PDF Editor. The new document is named “Extracted pages from [original document name].pdf”. You can rename and save it manually.
- If you choose Delete Page(s) in Step 2, a dialog box prompts to tell you the operation cannot be undone. Click OK and the corresponding pages are removed from the PDF.