Just for comparison, I checked the Antenna House and XEP documentation
regarding PDF options, and neither of them seem to have an option for hiding or
displaying the bookmarks pane. I cannot find it in the FOP doc either. I
guess the next question is whether the PDF standard even supports control of
the bookmarks pane.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
From: Richard Henwood
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 7:33 AM
To: Wood Nick ; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane
I have set fop1.extensions to 1. I believe this just generates the TOC
information and doesn't set the initial view to present the TOC in a left-hand
pane... However, I am aware there are a bunch of setting local to my pdf render
that may be fiddling with the initial presentation.
r,
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From: Wood Nick <nick.w...@ncia.nato.int>
To: "docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>;
Richard Henwood <rjhenw...@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2013, 2:03
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane
Richard,
Have you set the param fop1.extensions to 1, this works for me.
Nick
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From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:40 PM
To: Richard Henwood; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane
This would be a feature of your XSL-FO processor that generates the PDF. If
you are using FOP, you need to look at FOP's PDF output configuration, and see
if FOP has such a setting. There is no way to do it in DocBook XSL.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
From: Richard Henwood
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:02 PM
To: Bob Stayton ; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane
Hi Bob,
What I want is when my viewer opens the PDF (I generated from Docbook) for the
first time, it presents the user with the table of contents (the 'index'
according to evince) in a panel on the left hand side.
This gives the user an overview of the document; without this appearing on
initial view, a user may not know it exists.
Something like this: http://blog.rockymountaintraining.com/?p=383
r,
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From: Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net>
To: Richard Henwood <rjhenw...@yahoo.co.uk>; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 15:00
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane
Hi Richard,
Do you mean you want to replace the PDF bookmarks with a back-of-the-book index
in the left pane?
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
From: Richard Henwood
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:16 PM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane
Hi All,
Is there a switch I can throw to force the PDF that is generated to default to
displaying the index as a (left-hand) side bar?
The best I could find from my searching was:
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/ExtensionsForPdf but I am unsure how to
interpret this page. Any help would be gratefully appreciated!
cheers,
Richard
