Creating a TOC in pages
Can someone help in creating a Table of Contents (TOC) in Pages? I'm new to the Pages world, and am currently creating a document on the iCloud site with Pages. I can't seem to find a link, button, etc for creating a TOC.
What on page 62 does not apply to a Blank Template? I understand that you are using the Blank, but what I don't think that you understand is that Blank is a Template.
Is this what you are choosing?
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Is it possible to create a ToC on Pages for IOS ?
Hello
Is it possible to create a ToC on Pages for IOS ?
If its not possible its really a must have feature !
RegardsCreating a ToC with Pages for iOS doesn't seem possible. To let the good folks at Apple know how you feel, send your feedback to them:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ -
Created a document using a BLANK word processing format in Pages 09, not a template. I want to create a Table of Contents. When I review the users guide, it states that I need to use a template in order to create a TOC. What do you think
What on page 62 does not apply to a Blank Template? I understand that you are using the Blank, but what I don't think that you understand is that Blank is a Template.
Is this what you are choosing? -
How do I create multiple TOC's (Tables of Contents) in one Pages document?
I'd like to have multiple TOC's (Tables of Contents) in one document. This is useful for me because I'd like to have a TOC for the regular chapters, then a TOC for the procedures, then a TOC for the tables in the document (it's a tech manual that I am writing). How can I do this? Thanks for any help you can render, and have a nice day!
fruhulda wrote:
If you haven't used a paragraph style it can't create a TOC but you get the blue box with the message.
Paragraph used.
It has nothing to do if there is one main TOC or several smaller TOC to do.
It isn't true that you can only have one TOC in a document. Use styles for your titles and headings. I do and it works fine without section breaks.
You also need to tick which tile and heading you want in the TOCs in the Document Inspector > TOC
Did that.
Thanks to Yvan's quoting from the User Guide, I see where it says each TOC only indexes the material up until the next TOC. Since I had them follow each other, that is why they had no content.
Still it defeats the objective of indexing different material throughout the document if all you get is what is between the TOCs.
Peter -
Creating a TOC via script on InDesign Server [CS5.5]
I have been struggling for about two weeks with trying to figure out how to script the creation of a TOC and an index for a book. I've successfully created the book, and have also been able to create the table of contents, however I cannot place the contents in the book. From the UI it's simple because it loads up the cursor with the TOC contents. But in script, it simply provides an array with a single Story object.
I have no idea how to make the story appear in my document. Here's my current code:
var book = app.open("book.indb");
var doc = app.open("table_of_contents.indd");
var tocStyle = doc.tocStyles.firstItem();
var stories = doc.createTOC(tocStyle, true, book, ["1in", "1in"], false, doc.layers.firstItem());
When I hit that final line, I get the following error:
Invalid value for parameter 'destinationLayer' of method 'createTOC'. Expected Layer, but received Layer.
Okay... so, if it's expecting a Layer and I'm providing a Layer - what gives?
Originally I had figured that I:
Had to create a TOC document from a template which contains a single text frame that automatically flows from page-to-page (using a master)
Add the document to the book at the beginning
Copy the contents of the Story into the TextFrame
Iterate the Lines collection of the Story, copying the paragraph and character styles for each line
This works, but it's no longer a TOCStory type. I would like to maintain the TOCStory type and just have the content flowed into the new document which I add. This makes sense, logically, but I know that nothing in InDesign is really that logical. It seems to be a lot of collection manipulations, but I cannot figure out which collections to manipulate.
The Index.generate() method seems so much more logical because the first argument is where to place the content. If it were only that simple for the TOC! If you've had experience doing this, please let me in on the secret... I don't have access to the menu items so I cannot invoke actions. Those threads don't seem to apply for InDesign Server (and that makes sense, since it's headless)
Thanks,
- BrettHi Brett,
here is the code that worked for me.
Michael
var bk=app.books.add(File("C:/Users/wwadmin/Desktop/testbook.indb"));
for(i=0; i<5; i++){
var doc=app.documents.add()
var page=doc.pages.firstItem()
var frame=page.textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[0,0,'10in','10in']})
frame.contents="Hello World!!!!!";
var style=doc.paragraphStyles.add({name:"Body"});
frame.paragraphs.firstItem().appliedParagraphStyle=style;
doc.save(new File("C:/Users/wwadmin/Desktop/doc"+i+".indd"))
bk.bookContents.add(File("C:/Users/wwadmin/Desktop/doc"+i+".indd"));
var doc=app.documents.add();
var page=doc.pages.firstItem();
style=doc.paragraphStyles.add({name:"Body"})
tocstyle=doc.tocStyles.add({name:"myStyle"});
tocstyle.tocStyleEntries.add({formatStyle:style, name:style.name});
doc.save(new File("C:/Users/wwadmin/Desktop/test.indd"))
bk.bookContents.add(File("C:/Users/wwadmin/Desktop/test.indd"));
doc.createTOC(tocstyle, true, bk, undefined, true, doc.layers.firstItem())
bk.save()
for(a=app.documents.length-1; a>(-1); a--){
app.documents[a].save(File(app.documents[a].fullName));
app.documents[a].close();
bk.close() -
Best approach to creating a TOC for product catalog using data merge
What is the best approach for creating a TOC for a product catalog (over 1,000 items) using Data Merge?
The TOC would contain the product Categories.
So for example, Category A items could go from pages 1 - 3, and Category B items would start at pg 4, but if new items were added to Category A, then Category B may start from pg 6.
From the Data Source, there are 5 Data Fields I've chosen to be displayed. If this were a regular digital print document, I could use the Paragraph Style method for creating a TOC, but if I make any one of the Data Fields a certain Paragraph Style and use that for the TOC, it'll populate the TOC with that Data Field for all the items.
Any suggestions?Peter Spier wrote:
TOC is not interactive in the ID file, though it can be in a PDF that you export (there's a checkbox to create PDF bookmarks). You might want to think about using Cross-references (rather than hyperlinks, I think) to build the TOC. You have to do it manually, but once done it should maintain itself, whereas a TOC is built automatically, but must be regenerated after you edit the doc.
One caveat witih TOCs created from cross-references: Although changing the text of an x-ref source paragraph (for example from "Patatas and tamatas" to "Tomatoes and Potatoes,"and/or when the source paragraph flows to the next or previous page) update automatically or when invoking "Update cross-references," MOVING a cross-reference source paragraph to a location before or after another source paragraph, does not change their sequence in the pseudo-TOC. You'll need to manually move the reference in the pseudo-TOC to the correct position in the sequence of cross-refs. So, put the task of checking the order of x-refs in the pseudo-TOC on your before hand-off check list.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices -
Create a toc from adobe flash as3?
hi guys
i wante to create a completely toc in adobe flash as3? is there any way to do this?
for example i want to create a toc file with full size logo (photo form toc information)
or change duration location with slide title
i want also another questiion about sdk folder in adobe captivate, i found some swc file in this folder, but i want documetion to use this swf file in custome development,
thankHi
Please elaborate a bit more as you want users to download pdf from your site or print site page as pdf etc
If its regarding documents then you can add add df documents in your site and then link them to pages where users can download the pdf, if you are referring to print page then you can provide information for ctrl+p/cmd+p , or add html code for print shortcut.
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6319543
Thanks,
Sanjit -
Hi,
I searching for a solution to create a toc programatically.
I have found the description in createtocsnippet.cpp but still I can't put the TOC to a frame automatically.
It still ends up in displaying the mouse cursor to place the toc.
The command kCreateTOCCmdBoss seems to create the toc and it looks like it places the toc, but Indesign it self says no toc created.
If I use additional kFormatTOCCmdBoss to get the formating of the toc, I can't place it in a frame automatically.
Any help would be much appreciated.
TorstenHi,
It looks like you have inserted the script in the "XML Source" tab. Would not advise that! The XML Source tab is fine for minor amendments / tinkering, but is not the best place to insert script.
When you have LC open in Design view, there is a window at the top called "Script Editor" (available under the Windows menu).
If this is a single line, it is worth dragging the bottom bar down so that you see a few lines of script at a time.
Create a button on the page and then in Script Editor select the click event. You can then insert your text, as below:
The script would be as before, but without the tags (LC inserts these automatically).
var choice = app.popUpMenu("Page 1", "Topic 1", "Topic 2", "Topic 3");
if (choice == "Page 1")
xfa.host.currentPage = 0;
if (choice == "Topic 1")
xfa.host.currentPage = xfa.host.numPages -7;
if (choice == "Topic 2")
xfa.host.currentPage = xfa.host.numPages -6;
if (choice == "Topic 3")
xfa.host.currentPage = xfa.host.numPages -5;
In the example above I am counting backwards from the total number of pages. If you document is static (number of pages does not increase) you can just script using "xfa.host.currentPage". Just remember that the page numbers are based on a zero numbering system.
Hopefully you should end up with somethin like this:
Good luck,
Niall -
TOC update generates additional TOC reference page
Hello,
I'm working on documents with embedded table of contents (as a text insert in the document itself). To update the embedded TOC, I choose Special > Table of contents, save and close the TOC file, and then update the text insert. Normally this works without problem.
However, for one document, with each TOC update an additional "TOC" reference page is generated in the TOC file, and therefore all adjustments (such as paragraph numbering) are lost.
Every time I recreate my formats on the reference page, i.e. add nothing but <$paranum> to the respective entries, the next TOC update creates an additional reference page named TOC with standard entries.
I've already deleted the TOC and generated a new file, but I'm having the same problem again each time I update a TOC
Any suggestions what might be wrong?
I'm using FM 8.0p277 on Windows XP.
Thanks a lot in advance.
JohannesThanks for posting the second part of the story - makes the forum a useful source of information.
Did you not get an error message about "generated files not updated" when the ToC had unavailable fonts? -
Is there a way to create a TOC, Table of Figures, and Table of Tables one after the other up front in a document? We used to do this all the time when we wrote technical manuals. Is there a workaround of any kind?
Thanks,
Keith RowellOn that note: is there a way to auto add table and figure numbers, so it would read Figure 1-1 Flow Diagram?
I know Nisus does this using list styles, but it looks like Pages is different. -
FM TOC reference page generation
Is there a way to force FM to use a document's modified TOC reference page instead of it generating a second one when creating a separate TOC file?
Wes Edmonds wrote:
I modified the TOC reference page of the document I completed as follows:
openXmlElementId <$relfilename>:<$UniqueXmlElementId> <$RelativeXmlElementId>
openObjectId <$relfilename>:<$ObjectType> <$ObjectId>
<$elemtextonly>
<$paranum>\t<$elemtextonly> ......................................................................<$pagenum >
<$paranum>\t<$elemtextonly> .................................................................<$pagenum>
<$paranum>\t<$elemtextonly> .........................................................<$pagenum>
<$paranum>\t<$elemtextonly> .........................................................<$pagenum>
Each of these lines is formatted with its own Paragraph Tag (ie. Pgblk()TOC, Task()TOC, etc) which are Tahoma, 10pt.
When I generate a standalone TOC clicking [Special] >Table of Contents... > [Yes] (Do you want to creat a standalone TOC for this doc?), the new standalone TOC will not look like I expect and in the reference pages and I will have a second TOC ref page named "TOC1" with the following code:
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
openXmlElementId <$relfilename>:<$UniqueXmlElementId> <$RelativeXmlElementId>
openObjectId <$relfilename>:<$ObjectType> <$ObjectId>
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
<$elemtextonly> <$pagenum>
Each of these lines are in default Times New Roman font, 12pt and seems to be what FM uses to generate the TOC instead of my modified reference page from the original doc.
I remember having this happen a few years ago, probably in FrameMaker 7.x, perhaps 6.x. I can't remember ever finding its cause, or a remedy that avoids it. A quick Google search today didn't reveal the secret fix, though, I didn't dig deep into the results.
My solution was to import the TOC formats into the TOC<#> from either the document set's TOC template, or the main TOC document itself. This should fix the page layouts and text properties, but will not change the page references, etc., so the reformatted TOC should be what you expect.
An alternate approach is to create a copy of the TOC template in the directory where the chapter TOC will be created, name and save it to the TOC<#> that you anticipate will be generated. IIRC, generating the chapter TOC will fill the anticipated TOC with correct information formatted correctly.
Another option is to create a container TOC document with the correct formatting and import the generated TOC into it - this depends on having a version of FrameMaker that can import FM files.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices -
Create a custom Master Page in SharePoint Foundation 2013
Hi,
I am new to SharePoint foundation.
I am trying to create a custom master page and save it as template, so that i can use it for all other sub sites. But i don't know where to start. Also i tries searching in Google, i got results for share point and not for share point foundation.
So, Please give me a step by step procedure or a link to step by step procedure on how to create a master page, save it as template and use it for a sub site.
Thanks in advance,
Gowtham RFew points to note related to SharePoint Master page:
You don't need to create master page template. If you deploy your master page in site collection level you can reuse the same master page in subsites without copying again and again, rather just by referencing
You have not mentioned how you are going to deploy your master page. If you have any Visual Studio (VS) solution already, try to add your master page in the VS solution and deploy your master page (and other branding components) as SharePoint WSP
solution.
Deploying master page will not activate the master page, you need to use some kind of 'Web Level Feature' to activate your branding - the feature will basically set the master page property of SharePoint site to your custom master page.
Please follow the links below for steps by steps instructions (and you will find many just by googling 'sharepoint master page visual studio'):
http://frederik.se/how-to-deploy-a-custom-master-page-in-sharepoint-2013-using-visual-studio/
http://joshuaorimogunje.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/how-to-create-custom-master-page-for-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bobgerman/archive/2011/01/31/packaging-master-pages-and-page-layouts-with-visual-studio-2010.aspx
http://go.limeleap.com/community/bid/291931/Creating-a-Custom-SharePoint-Master-Page-with-jQuery-Using-Visual-Studio
Thanks,
Sohel Rana
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com -
I created a newsletter using pages on my IPAD 3. All of a sudden I can no longer open that document. When I click on it, it throws me out of pages all together. I can open other pages documents, but not that one. It is very frustrating to be able to SEE the file, but not open it.
I rebooted and I do have icloud back-up on but am not sure how to restore an older version. I also made sure there are no updates for pages. Until the IPAD I used a home PC which I still have but am trying to wean myself off of. I wish now I had used MS Publisher on my PC for the newsletter even though I hate it.
Please don't tell me I have lost my Newsletter and 20 hours worth of work.Try resetting your iPad. Hold the on/off and home buttons together for 7 or 8 seconds till the Apple logo appears.
I'm assuming your default is to save Pages documents to iCloud, and that you had a good WiFi connection when you closed Pages the last time you tried to save the document. -
I have a problem.
I bought Pages and Numbers for my iMac and so far everything was OK.
Suddenly i have a problem with connection to iCloud.
Dokuments created on iMac in Pages or Numbers are not transfered to iCloud. Not uploaded to iCloud. There is a sign (small shape of iCloud), that they are waiting to be uploaded to iCloud.
I think the iCloud is OK.
i can see and manage documents in iCloud. i can create them on iPad and see them and delete them in iCloud.
But not on iMac.
i dont know what has happened and I am not abble to find the solution. It was OK till some days ago….I have a similar problem! Everything stopped working after upgrading to Mac OS 10.8.4 through the App Store. Help!
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Create a follow up page in scripts using Duplex and Tumble Duplex in print
How to create a follow up page in scripts using Duplex and Tumble Duplex in print mode of scripts ?
it depends upon output device types.
Regards
Prabhu
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