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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
k2pdfopt (free, open source) can also do this by supplying a text file. See the -toclist option. Use like so:
k2pdfopt -mode copy -n -toclist my_chapter_list.txt srcfile.pdf -o outfile.pdf
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
Jpdfbookmark can work for scanned books
Prepare the TOC in .txt file
Chapter 1. The Beginning/23
Para 1.1 Child of The Beginning/25,FitWidth,96
Para 1.1.1 Child of Child of The ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
I wrote an open source command line toolset called pdf.tocgen just for doing this. It uses the embedded font attributes and position information of headings to generate a table of contents ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
THIS PART IS EDITED
For 'software-generated' PDF-files, i.e. PDF's not created from scans, I recommend to use (and upvote the answer by Krasjet) pdf.tocgen. Using this package becomes even easier with ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
I am used to a simple and free tool that adds clickable bookmarks to PDF or DjVU files: http://handyoutlinerfo.sourceforge.net/.
You first have to prepare (and import in the tool) bookmarks entered ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
The best solution I found:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/PdfMod
Extract:
You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and ...
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Tricky Conversion
I do ebook conversions regularly. I can't answer every point in your question, but I can give you some general strategies.
First, the Amazon mobi format is hard and tricky to make a good ebook for. ...
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What symbols/text to use for index references?
I have created an index for an nonfiction title before (a technical manual), and I think indices do serve a purpose -- and by the way, I created an author index too!
The key thing is making sure the ...
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Kindle vs Hyperlinked Images
(I assume you are talking about an internal, not external link. Is that right?)
Here are some helpful clues and semi-educated guesses.
The epub3 spec doesn't say anything about whether reading ...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
I understand most of you probably prefer an open source command line based solution but sometimes a good app can save you a lot of time.
If you're on a Mac I can recommend:
https://www.onekerato.com/...
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
WPS office suite on Windows allows creating or editing pdf's TOC
Be aware that it's a bit invasive though (shortcuts, default, runs in background...)
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
Here is my repository that I plan to automate the procedure.
https://github.com/aminya/tocPDF
For now, it is the manual procedure (which is also inspired by other people answers).
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