When you think of PDF you automatically think of Adobe Acrobat. I use Acrobat since .. well i don't know but as long as i can remember. Normally i just take a quick look over a pdf, but nowadays it is getting more and more common to post free downloads of books as pdf's.
I found such a download about a PHP book which i thought to read over in time since i need it for work. After 10 pages (the index ;-) i had to make a break becouse of some work which had high priority and just wanted to bookmark the page i was on ... but i was unable to find such a feature...
After i had the work done i looked over Acrobat a couple of Times.. there is a bookmark Toolbar.. but where can i make myself a bookmark... well after some research in the help i found out i had to "upgrade" to Acrobat Writer.... Hello? I don't want to write PDF's ... i just want to make a Bookmark where i am.. like in the Book i read in the moment when driving to work or home by train....
I mean we are in the Year 2006... we have Browsers with Bookmarks, Winword with Bookmarks but why the hell not in Acrobat?
So i googled in the net to find some open source software... maybe there is something which is better or at least able to make personalized bookmarks.
Well i found Foxit, which is the quickest way to open PDF's i have ever seen. The Program is about 2.6 MB in size and does NOT need to install. It opened the PDF in notime... but unfortunately no Bookmark function.
Then i found a Hack from OReilly for Adobe Acrobat ... a Javascript which enables to make Bookmarks.
Unfortunately i did not find any Hack for Foxit, that would be ingenious.
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