[docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Henwood
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

Re: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane

2013-09-18 Thread Bob Stayton
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] ini

Re: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Henwood
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 init

Re: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane

2013-09-18 Thread Bob Stayton
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 He