It's been a while since I played with it, but I'm pretty sure that if you use XSL 1.1 bookmark objects (rather than the FOP extension for bookmarks), then the value of "starting-state" (show or hide) on the top-level bookmark determines if the bookmark pane is initially displayed. I'm pretty sure this works in FOP 1.0.
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:18
To: Richard Henwood; Wood Nick;
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] initial pdf view with index side pane
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,
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To: "" <>; Richard Henwood <>
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
