Merge PDF with Bookmarks: Keep Navigation Intact
Combining PDFs often destroys bookmarks. Learn how to merge PDF files while preserving or rebuilding the table of contents and named destinations.
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Merge PDF with Bookmarks: Preserve Navigation After Combining One of the most common complaints after merging PDFs is that the navigation disappears. You had a well-structured source document with a clickable table of contents — every chapter was a bookmark you could jump to instantly. After merging, the bookmarks are gone and the merged document is a featureless block of pages. This guide explains how PDF bookmarks work, which tools preserve them, and how to create or rebuild bookmarks after merging using in Node.js. How PDF Bookmarks Work PDF bookmarks — formally called the document outline — are a tree structure stored separately from the page content in the PDF file. Each bookmark node contains: A title (the text shown in the Bookmarks panel) A destination (a page number and optional…
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