"Add a bookmark" not available

David Ford · 2024-05-21T17:14:40+00:00

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I have a pdf and the "Add a bookmark" not available. The button is greyed out and will not let me create a bookmark. This is a pdf of an engineers set of plans and possibly had a digital Florida Engineer seal on them.

I work with these types of pdf's all the time and this is the first time that I am not able to bookmark a page.

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Luke Shiras

Another trick I've used is to save the PDF to Google Drive, and then resave it as a new PDF. Google Drive is basically rewriting the PDF when it converts it to its format so it's like step number 4 above.

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Luke Shiras

I'm assuming it's not a Studio Session. Could it be locked? Some people have trust issues😉

Duane Gingras

There are various states that will grey out some of your tools. Security is one as @Luke Shiras has pointed out. A signed document will also do this and if the PDF is archival (PDF/A). There is a fourth state that is unknown to me still as I only see it once or twice a year, the file is greyed out for no apparent reason and only a rebiuld will fix it. You can access two of the four scenarios:

Turn off restrict changes

2. Remove Open PDF/A as locked

3. There is no appropriate solution to a password protected file. PDFs have a user/owner password combination. A user level password can typically be broken. An owner level password can not (in a reasonable time frame).

4. Unknown condition. Rebuild if source documents are available (best). Try to creats a new PDF from that file (sometimes works). and Finally print to PDF to generate an image duplicate, then OCR it if need be (worst option).

David Ford

Thank you for your comments. I work in Revu version 20. The file must be locked (see attached below).

I do not run across this very much. I work in the plumbing multi-family field and I usually download the arch, civil, structural, and plumbing pdf's from BIM360 and then add bookmarks for quick access for viewing and printing.

I appreciate your feedback.

Luke Shiras

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