'link' feature in pdfpages package does not work

Asked Jan 28 '20 at 19:12

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I followed this answer to merge many pdfs together with automatic bookmarks. In spite of the fact that it worked 1 time (before updating packages with MiKTeX), now I keep getting an error which makes bookmarks link to random pages:

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{Topic\0401\040-\040Introduction\040to\040Measurment .pdf.1} has been referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

I would like to find a solution since this code is easy to automize and it may often be useful since I do not want to pay for any software. (If you know a better way tell me please).

An example of the code is:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{bookmark}

\pdfminorversion = 6

\begin{document}

    \includepdf[pages=-, link]{Topic 1 - Introduction to Measurment.pdf}

    \bookmark[dest={Topic 1 - Introduction to Measurment.pdf.1}]{1. Introduction to Measurment} 

\end{document}

Thank you!

asked Jan 28 '20 at 19:12

Lorenzo Chiaverini

Don't use spaces in file names. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 28 '20 at 19:31
Do you think I should change the names of the actual files then? – Lorenzo Chiaverini Jan 28 '20 at 19:47
Yes, without the spaces it works. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 28 '20 at 19:50
Yes it worked, I am such a noob ahahah. Thank you! I lost so much time on this. – Lorenzo Chiaverini Jan 28 '20 at 20:13
The problem is that bookmark properly escapes the space in the file name, while pdfpages doesn't. Instead of renaming your file, you could use the linkname option of pdfpages: \includepdf[pages=-,link,linkname={Topic1}]{...} and then \bookmark[dest={Topic1.1}]{...} – Robert Jan 28 '20 at 20:46
I had already tried that before writing the question, it doesn't work though – Lorenzo Chiaverini Jan 31 '20 at 13:27

'link' feature in pdfpages package does not work

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