Name It

The easy way to create and manage named destinations

Name It is an Acrobat plug-in which makes the creation of PDF named destinations easy with a simple user interface. You can create them one at a time, or in batch from bookmarks.

Named destinations enable your PDF documents to be navigated more easily on the Web and are also ideal for on-line manuals and help documentation, particularly if regular updates occur.

What is a named destination?

A named destination is a destination view of part (or all) of a particular page of a PDF document. This specific view is stored within the PDF with an associated name.

Named destinations thus enable a user to name a view on a page of a document with a text name such as introduction, in a similar way to a bookmark referring to a particular view. But, these named destinations can then be set to be the views of links or bookmarks when Name It is installed.

If you use named destinations for inter-document links then it will not matter if documents are updated as long as they include all the required named destinations. This makes updates much simpler as links do not need to be changed in existing documents because they use the names rather than specific page numbers and views.

Note: Name It is only required to create and manipulate the named destinations. Once the PDFs are complete, they can be distributed to anyone, regardless of whether or not they have Name It.

More Details

Name It makes it easy to create multiple named destinations in one go. With one button click you can create named destinations for all bookmarks in a PDF file, for each page, or apply them to multiple files in batch mode!

The real benefit of using named destinations is when you are using PDF documents in conjunction with the World-Wide Web or on-line help systems. Normally if you link to a PDF document (and you are using Acrobat within your Web browser) you will see the first page. However, if you have named destinations in the document and you link to doc.pdf#introduction the browser will open the PDF at the named destination called `introduction' -- wherever it is in the document.

Name It also provides a mechanism for converting links which use named destinations to normal Acrobat links. This may sound bizarre, but has proved to be very useful for some systems where people are merging multiple PDF documents containing named destinations, which happen to use the same names in different documents.

Acrobat does not provide any direct way of opening PDF documents at a named destination, but Name It's companion product, Name It Launcher, ideal for on-line PDF document systems and CD-ROM delivery, will allow you to do just that.

Main Features

• Create named destinations by bookmark
• Create by page, optionally using page label ("logical number" as shown under thumbnails)
• Create in batch
• Edit and rename existing named destinations
• Full import and export facility for a single PDF or entire folder
• Export bookmark-related named destinations
• Create links to named destinations
• Remove all destinations (e.g. to clean up before creating new ones)