Adam, Thanks for your reply
It looks to me that the content of PDF Bookmarks very widely between PDFs. I checked PDF books that I own from 3 different Publishers. The COSBase returned from PDDestination.getCOSObject() COSArray, COSString, COSName, at least those are the ones I found. I did download the PDF Spec : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf. I must admit its quite lengthy and I have not read exactly how to get to the info I need yet. My goal is to lucene-index the BookMarks, search them and then be able to jump to the page indicated by the bookmark, I'm not sure yet if this will be possible. I did see this in the examples: GoToSecondBookMarkOnOpen.java PDOutlineItem item = bookmarks.getFirstChild().getNextSibling(); PDDestination dest = item.getDestination(); PDActionGoTo action = new PDActionGoTo(); action.setDestination(dest); document.getDocumentCatalog().setOpenAction(action); document.save( args[1] ); maybe this will provide me with some more clues. I did attempt several tests on the code snippet you provided but I could not get the page number when PDAction == null, ie dest != null. As I stated above the COSObject in many cases is not COSArray again thanks for you input I will take a closer look at getPageMap(). Tim
