Re: [Groff] mm TC - how to place in the beginning of document?

[Marko Pesikan]

Good day,

the method with qpdf works very well. thx.

qpdf test.pdf --pages test.pdf z,1-3 -- outfile.pdf

regards, Marko


Am 23.11.19 um 18:13 schrieb Marko Pesikan:
> thx for reply, I will try to analyses that you wrote tomorrow.
> regards, Marko
>
> Am 23.11.19 um 15:02 schrieb Ralph Corderoy:
> > Hi Marko,
> >
> > > currently i want to bring my table of content on the top  of the
> > > document.  I found a solution below and is work.
> > >
> > > > Using  the  psutils  package,  you can move the last page containing
> > > > the TOC to the beginning of the document:
> > > >
> > > >       psselect -p_1,1-_2 in.ps out.ps
> > > After 7 Years, is this  solution still a good way to bring the toc on
> > > the top?
> > You can see the psselect(1) method explained at
> > https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/tables-of-contents.html
> >
> > If you're using -Tpdf then qpdf(1) can also re-arrange page order and
> > has r3 for the third-from-end page, and z for the last page.
> >
> > The mom macros have a method of moving the table of contents with -Tpdf
> > that depends on gropdf(1)'s .pdfpagename and .pdfswitchtopage. (Deri,
> > I don't think they're documented?)  mom uses them with the page name
> > MOM:TOC.  Perhaps mm, or an mm user, could also benefit from them for
> > .TC.  Hard to say without more investigation.