Hack 61 Copy Features from One PDF to Another 
Restore bookmarks, annotations, and forms after
refrying your PDF.
You just refried your
high-fidelity PDF [Hack #60] to
create a lightweight, online edition and Distiller burned off the
nifty PDF navigation features and forms. Let's
combine the old PDF's navigation features and forms
with the new PDF's pages to get a lightweight,
interactive PDF. Here's how:
Open the old PDF file (the one with the bookmarks, links, or form
fields) in Acrobat. A file selector dialog opens. Select the new PDF file (the one with
no PDF features). The Replace Pages dialog opens, requesting which pages to replace.
Enter the first and last page numbers of your document. When it is done, select Save As . . . to save the resulting PDF into
a new file. Test the resulting PDF to make sure all your interactive features
came through successfully.
Using the Replace Pages feature like this to separate the visible
page from its interactive features can be pretty handy. If you ever
need to transfer a page and its interactive features, use the Extract
Pages, Insert Pages, and Delete Pages functions.
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