Updated Hypertext-Linking Plug-in for
Acrobat Can Now Generate Bookmarks

June 29, 2011 Midlothian, Virginia. Virginia Systems announced today that it is shipping an updated version of its Sonar Bookends Activate hypertext-linking plug-in for Adobe Acrobat.

The updated plug-in works with Acrobat versions 8.x and 9.x for both Macintosh and Windows.

New features for Sonar Bookends Activate include:

* Automatic bookmark generation based on the PDF file's table of contents

* Text in a hyperlink can be optionally colored either red, blue, or green. This a change from the previous version where hyperlinked text could be underlined with a red, blue, or green colored line:

Introduction............12

• Index entries can how have a tab separating the word or phrase from the first page number for that word or phrase. A comma or a dot-leader can also be used as a separator:

  Flying a helicopter 242, 286, 402-410
  Flying a helicopter, 242, 286, 402-410
  Flying a helicopter.............. 242, 286, 402-410

Older versions of the plug-in are included for prior versions of Acrobat.

A free demo version of Sonar Bookends Activate is available on Virginia Systems' web site at: www.virginiasystems.com under "Downloads."

The demo will allow the user to create hyperlinks and bookmarks in a limited fashion with their own PDF files.

Sonar Bookends Activate costs $195 for a single-user license.

Updates to Sonar Bookends Activate are free to users who had previously purchased a version of the product after May 1, 2011. Otherwise, a one-year support agreement that includes updates is $125. Support agreements can be purchased on the Virginia Systems' web site under "Ordering."

Virginia Systems was founded in 1984 and has a software product line which covers text retrieval, web-site searching, automatic index-generation, cross-referencing, figure/table/paragraph numbering, PDF bookmark and hyperlink generation, and footnote software.

For further information, contact: Virginia Systems, 5509 West Bay Court, Midlothian, VA 23112-2506, Phone: (804) 739-3200, FAX: (804) 739-8376, Email: sales@virginiasystems.com, URL: www.virginiasystems.com


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