Re: Is it possible to have a PDF table of contents list?

[Valery Ushakov]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:09:35 -0500, Wolfram Kahl wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:19:13AM +0000, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > In my PDF viewer it can show the page thumbnails in a vertical panel,
> > but it does not show a table of contents list in a vertical panel. (I
> > don't need/want a generated table of contents slide, since I want manual
> > control of that.)
> > 
> > I _think_ this may be a Bookmarks list, but neither the user guide nor
> > the expert guide mention bookmarks.
> 
> As far as I know, this does not depend on Lout-the-program,
> but only on the library (.../lout/include) which you can extend yourself:
> You'd need to find out what to write into the Lout-generated
> PostScript so that your PostScript-to-PDF converter (in my case
> `ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress') generates the desired PDF features.

Lout does generate some pdfmarks internally (@LinkSource and
@LinkDest), but you can also use @Graphics (@DocInfo in include/bsf).

Shouldn't be that hard to add pdfmarks to document structure symbols,
like @Section, though it's been more than a decade since I looked
closer, so I might be misremembering.

I'll try to take a look when I have time unless someone beats me to
it.

-uwe