By offering robust bookmarking functions, split and merge options, and audit capabilities, AMS reduces bookmarking errors, decreases labor hours, and provides enhanced collaboration through PDF merge operation.

Use AMS to create, edit, and audit bookmarks fast. Split and Merge PDF files or their bookmarks to match your requirements. Set file open and security properties and create high value index pages to provide top level navigational capabilities.

The FAQs below provide a comprehensive listing of queries on AMS Binder and its numerous functions.

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• Pentium processor-based PC, PIII or above
  
• 256 MB of RAM or higher
  
• Win XP, Win 2000
  
• Acrobat 6.0 or Acrobat 7.0. It will not work with Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
• Java Runtime Environment – JRE 1.4.0 (included in AMS software package)

Yes, a source folder and an .LST file could be specified simultaneously to get PDF files from both sources.

If any PDF file is not required for a final merge operation, you can remove it by selecting and pressing the 'Delete' key from the keyboard. This will only remove the selected file from the list of loaded PDF files. The PDF file on your hard disk will remain unaffected. Pressing 'Load Files' button will again display this file in the list of available files.

You can rename any loaded PDF filename by double clicking, or pressing F2 while it is selected. This helps rename files in case any of the filenames is being repeated and can affect the final output of the binder. In case of a logical binder creation, these filename changes will be reflected in the Bookmarks Tree built in Step 2, and the respective final output binder folder will have the renamed PDF file(s) with the new name. However, renaming the PDF file here will not rename the original PDF file.

AMS Auto PDF Binder allows you to create a PDF binder using two different, powerful and resourceful binding techniques to meet your varied needs. You can either physically merge multiple PDF files into a single PDF file called a 'Physical Binder', or you can create a 'Logical Binder' where original PDF files are left unchanged and merge function is supported through integrated bookmarks and a top-level navigation page. This same merged tree is also applied to individual source PDF files allowing you to navigate across all the component PDF files without physically merging them into a single large file.

Yes, AMS Binder Application Suite is a powerful tool that allows different sorts of splitting and merging functions. Using the Advanced options in Physical Binder for a PDF file loaded in Step1, selecting the desired pages and/or page ranges from source PDF files will first split the intended pages from those files and then merge these split pages together to form a new required physical binder. Similarly, you can also split and merge only the bookmark destination pages from the
source file.

For both physical and logical binders, original source PDF files always remain unchanged.

Yes, this can be achieved by selecting respective option in Advanced options dialog of the Physical Binder in Step 1. If the user selects this option, the application will extract only those pages from source PDF files that are actually the destination of any of the available bookmarks in that source PDF file and then merge all such pages, along with their corresponding bookmarks, into a single PDF file. However, bookmarks for destination pages in remote PDF files will be ignored.

The damaged or password-protected source PDF files identified in Step 1 would not be processed through PDF binder, and an error dialog box will be displayed while moving on to Step 2. You will have an option either to skip your erroneous file(s) to continue to Step 2, or choose to stay in Step 1. In the latter case, PDF Binder will display the erroneous files in pink color. The erroneous files will also be notified in pink while in Advanced Options of the Physical Binder in Step 1.

In case of logical binder, duplicate filenames are not allowed because the files have to be placed in the same subfolder under the specified target folder after logical binder creation. Application will give an error message if you try to move on to Step 2 with duplications in filenames, all instances of duplicate filenames will be indicated in pink color. However, you can still choose to have duplicate or unique 'Aliases' for bookmarks against desired PDF filenames in the Bookmarks tree. In case of physical binder, file duplication does not matter; you'll be prompted whether or not to remove any filename duplication.

An alias is alternate name assigned to a filename to make it meaningful. Alias is a name that could appear in the bookmarks of the resultant PDF binder in place of a filenames. For example 'Chapter 3' could be the alias for a PDF file, 'Humanitarian report_part3.pdf'. This will display as 'Chapter 3' in the bookmarks of the said PDF file, instead of its real filename.

Binder Application Suite can also generate HTML code for the resultant PDF binder file making it easier to place binder PDF files on the Internet. This HTML code can be placed on the website along with the corresponding PDF files(s). In case of a physical binder, moving the HTML code and the binder file in the same folder on the website would make the HTML functional. For a logical binder, the binder file along with the PDF files created in the Target Folder have to be moved to the same folder on the website to function.

Binder index is the page or pages that can be embedded in start of the output binder PDF file. This could act as an introduction for the merged files and could also provide a top-level navigational point in the form of bookmarks and filename links. You can browse to another PDF file and add that as an index to your resultant binder file. PDF Binder also gives you the alternative to import text from a .TXT file, or type any text through keyboard in the given text field. A logo can also be added in picture file format. Both the text and the logo, if provided, could be aligned as desired.

The Properties dialog box options can be accessed by pressing the 'Properties…' button under the Binder Preferences in Step 2: Preview and Create. Different kinds of document properties for the resultant binder file can be preset in this dialog box. Securities including passwords and other privileges can also be decided here.

With this option checked, whenever a physical or a logical binder is created, its corresponding source files will be moved to a new subfolder created in the specified source folder. The name of this subfolder will be 'binder' followed by an initial numeric value of 1. This numeric value will increment with each new subfolder created by the application. In case of source files specification through .LST file, only the source .LST file will be moved to the new folder; the participating PDF files will still remain at their original folder location and will not be moved even if this option is checked.

By checking this option, AMS Binder will automatically open up the binder file in Adobe Acrobat for user to visually audit the created bookmarks.

In case of the Logical Binder, the source PDF files are not physically merged. A logical binder PDF file contains bookmarks pointing to destinations in remote PDF files, and assumes the target files to be located in the same folder where the logical binder is located. If they are moved to other locations, the logical binder could no longer point to intended PDF files. To function properly, created binder file and all its associated target PDF files need to be placed in the same folder.

Yes, AMS Binder can create bookmarks for a scanned PDF file, as well. If you have the Master File (an .mrk file or a Flat .txt file) along with the respective scanned PDF, you can use the 'Import Bookmarks' function to apply bookmarks to the binder source PDF files.

The import bookmarks utility automatically process bookmark information control files, extracts bookmarks for specified criteria and applies these to relevant PDF files.