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
From: Richard Henwood
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 7:33 AM
To: Wood Nick ;
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,
From: Wood
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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:]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18,
2013 11:40 PM
To: Richard Henwood;
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
From: Richard Henwood
Sent:
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:02 PM
To: Bob Stayton ;
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,
From: Bob Stayton <>
To:
Richard Henwood <>;
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
From: Richard Henwood
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:16
PM
To:
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
