Automatically Generating Bookmarks - A Question SOLVED
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Automatically Generating Bookmarks - A Question
Hi,
About automatically generating bookmarks from the document's own headers, I saw this: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgebase/485-How-do-I-Create-a-table-of-contents-with-the-Editor
Is there any way to use a document's OWN Table of Contents to generate bookmarks? Such that if we can see a page like this
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction.....iv
Author's Note.....viii
Chapter 1.....3
Chapter 2....56
Chapter 3....99
Conclusion...198
Then the bookmarks get created from these values? Rather than scanning each page header - which offers hundreds of opportunities for a mis-read, is there any way to act upon the page values of the two or three Table of Contents Pages to generate bookmarks?
Sincerely,
SW
About automatically generating bookmarks from the document's own headers, I saw this: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgebase/485-How-do-I-Create-a-table-of-contents-with-the-Editor
Is there any way to use a document's OWN Table of Contents to generate bookmarks? Such that if we can see a page like this
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction.....iv
Author's Note.....viii
Chapter 1.....3
Chapter 2....56
Chapter 3....99
Conclusion...198
Then the bookmarks get created from these values? Rather than scanning each page header - which offers hundreds of opportunities for a mis-read, is there any way to act upon the page values of the two or three Table of Contents Pages to generate bookmarks?
Sincerely,
SW
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Re: Automatically Generating Bookmarks - A Question
Hi,
I think that you will have to use : Create Bookmarks "From Table of Contents" in the Bookmarks ribbon.
More info here: https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe9/bookmarks-guide_ed.html (click the fourth hyperlink).
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Willy
I think that you will have to use : Create Bookmarks "From Table of Contents" in the Bookmarks ribbon.
More info here: https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe9/bookmarks-guide_ed.html (click the fourth hyperlink).
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Re: Automatically Generating Bookmarks - A Question
Thanks Willy,
there is also this one: https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe ... xt_ed.html
I hope that helps.
there is also this one: https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe ... xt_ed.html
I hope that helps.
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Re: Automatically Generating Bookmarks - A Question
Hi Willy and Paul,
What can I do where there are LONG chapter titles? This means the PDF file has linebreaks at the end of each line. So that a chapter written as:
Explore lung, breathing and allergy disorders, treatments, tests and prevention services provided by the Respiratory Institute 25
Is picked up as two separate bookmarks
Explore lung, breathing and allergy disorders, treatments, tests and
prevention services provided by the Respiratory Institute.
The SECOND link work. The first one only brings me back to the original table of contents.
I selected the below option, and then selected ALL checkboxes. No difference.
Where TOC titles have linebreaks...what can we do?
Thanks!
WS
What can I do where there are LONG chapter titles? This means the PDF file has linebreaks at the end of each line. So that a chapter written as:
Explore lung, breathing and allergy disorders, treatments, tests and prevention services provided by the Respiratory Institute 25
Is picked up as two separate bookmarks
Explore lung, breathing and allergy disorders, treatments, tests and
prevention services provided by the Respiratory Institute.
The SECOND link work. The first one only brings me back to the original table of contents.
I selected the below option, and then selected ALL checkboxes. No difference.
Where TOC titles have linebreaks...what can we do?
Thanks!
WS
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Re: Automatically Generating Bookmarks - A Question
Tried this: https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe9/index.html?bookmarks-guide_ed.html
BUT...the document has a 93 page introduction. Using a plain text file, how can I enter an offset value for the import bookmarks via TOC from a text file?
Then, please, too, if my question about the line breaks could be answered.
Sincerely,
SW
BUT...the document has a 93 page introduction. Using a plain text file, how can I enter an offset value for the import bookmarks via TOC from a text file?
Then, please, too, if my question about the line breaks could be answered.
Sincerely,
SW
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Re: Automatically Generating Bookmarks - A Question
Hi Again,
Extra info:
What I did was to use the advance pagination feature. So that I have
iii~Xciii
for the introduction.
I did this to mimic the actual printed pages' visible pagination.
Now, in the pagination box at the bottom of the page I see: So, if I want to use a text file for my bookmarks, how do I handle the pages
iii~Xciii
most efficiently?
Put another way - right now the printed Table of Contents shows
XYZ content on page 20
BUT
XYZ content actually is on page 111
because of the Introduction. What would be the most efficient way, or alternative, to handle this if I want to use a text file to generate bookmarks based on the Table of Contents, short of doing the math for every printed bookmark - please note...it's an...897 page book. Hoping for an automated solution.
Thanks!
SW
Extra info:
What I did was to use the advance pagination feature. So that I have
iii~Xciii
for the introduction.
I did this to mimic the actual printed pages' visible pagination.
Now, in the pagination box at the bottom of the page I see: So, if I want to use a text file for my bookmarks, how do I handle the pages
iii~Xciii
most efficiently?
Put another way - right now the printed Table of Contents shows
XYZ content on page 20
BUT
XYZ content actually is on page 111
because of the Introduction. What would be the most efficient way, or alternative, to handle this if I want to use a text file to generate bookmarks based on the Table of Contents, short of doing the math for every printed bookmark - please note...it's an...897 page book. Hoping for an automated solution.
Thanks!
SW
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Re: Automatically Generating Bookmarks - A Question SOLVED
Hello, standish-001
The only way to setup a page offset for import from a text file currently, is to manually edit the text file, adding the appropriate number of pages to the page number for each line of text: The "Logical page numbers" are not counted for the purpose of the txt file, and simply utilize their raw page number, (IE your "xiii" in the screenshot above is page 11 out of 897. So the bookmark should be written out as:
"Bookmark name; 11"
A more efficiently workaround, to do this right now, would be to extract the pages you do not want to be counted from the document. so that it starts on the "page 1" which you want these bookmarks to count from. Then apply the bookmarks, and re-insert the previously extracted pages.
I hope this helps!
Kind regards,
The only way to setup a page offset for import from a text file currently, is to manually edit the text file, adding the appropriate number of pages to the page number for each line of text: The "Logical page numbers" are not counted for the purpose of the txt file, and simply utilize their raw page number, (IE your "xiii" in the screenshot above is page 11 out of 897. So the bookmark should be written out as:
"Bookmark name; 11"
A more efficiently workaround, to do this right now, would be to extract the pages you do not want to be counted from the document. so that it starts on the "page 1" which you want these bookmarks to count from. Then apply the bookmarks, and re-insert the previously extracted pages.
I hope this helps!
Kind regards,
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