Re: HOWTO: Exporting index in PDF file
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:20:24PM +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote:
> Hello world!
>
> Some pdf files has a built-in index that can be used for navigation, which
> in most cases, are shown in the left side plate of the PDF browser, for
> example `evince`. If still not clear, you may think of latex generated pdf
> files (most of them has this structured index navigation).
>
> *How to export the index structure used for nevigation as plain
> text?*Implementing this index navigation feature into pdf browsers
> like `evince`
> clearly needs this as in important API.
In PDF jargon this index is known as the PDF's bookmarks.
According to this <http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17065>
discussion, pdftk should do the trick. You will need the version from
experimental (1.45) in able to update the bookmarks, but the version
in stable should let you export them.
hth
dt
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