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

[Richard Henwood <rjhenwood@yahoo.co.uk>]

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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From: Wood Nick <Nick.Wood@ncia.nato.int>
To: "docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>; Richard Henwood <rjhenwood@yahoo.co.uk>
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:bobs@sagehill.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:40 PM
To: Richard Henwood; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
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
bobs@sagehill.net

 

From: Richard Henwood

Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:02 PM

To: Bob Stayton ; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

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,

 

 

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From: Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>
To: Richard Henwood <rjhenwood@yahoo.co.uk>; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
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
bobs@sagehill.net

 

From: Richard Henwood

Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:16 PM

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

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