Editable Table of Contents for PDF in Preview

I am creating my own PDF document and I want it to have the convienent Table of Contents feature in Preview. But how can I edit my PDF document so it will have such a feature?

I want to create said table. I am creating the PDF document, I want to be able to create the Table of Contents myself. Any idea how?

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Table of contents in PDF files

IBooks gives two options for displaying the Table of Contents for PDF files—thumbnails or a conventional table. The thumbnails view is useless to me, and I would like the conventional table view to appear by default. Unfortunately, the TOC almost always appears in thumbnails view, and I have to manually select the list view.
Is there any way to set the list view as the default TOC view for PDF files?
Thanks.

Hi Michael,
When you combine files into a single PDF, each file you include will have a bookmark in the Bookmarks panel in Acrobat/Reader. So, I suppose you could treat that as a Table of Contents. (It doesn't, however, create a separate TOC and append it to the file.) The bookmark names reflect the filename of each file you combined.
I hope that answers your question.
Best,
Sara

How do I make a table of contents for a collection of six short stories that is after the legal page and NOT in the front on an unnumbered page?

How do I make a table of contents for a collection of six short stories that is after the legal page and NOT in the front on an unnumbered page?
When I first started I made a title page and then pasted in my first story from a .TXT file. After cleaning up I went back to the front a couple of empty lines ahead of the story and typed in the story title. Unlarged the font size and centered it, then

You can't do that. This is what the Pages User Guide, downloadable from your Pages Help menu, says:
Creating and Updating a Table of Contents
Each table of contents (TOC) you create using a Word Processing template lists only the content that follows it, up until the next table of contents. If you want a master table of contents for the entire document, it must be the only table of contents, and it must be at the beginning of the document.
You can do it manually though.

Can you create a table of contents for the documents within a PDF Portfolio?

If I create a pdf portfolio that contains multiple documents (e.g. Word, multiple PDFs and Excel documents), is there a way to create a table of contents at the beginning of the portfolio to help navigate to the individual documents?

Hi,
The Files list displays a list of files, so the user can quickly see all the files in the portfolio with any information you want to share; title, description, file type, size etc.
Or, you can also use a different layout, for example, the Linear and use the space next to each file to describe it.
Hope this helps.......
JGaf

Table of Contents in PDF Export

I've generated a Table of Contents in iWork '09. When I export this to a PDF using the Best Quality, it doesn't contain a table of contents. I think this would be a very useful option, since I use iWork to create technical documents.

I've generated a Table of Contents in iWork '09. When I export this to a PDF using the Best Quality, it doesn't contain a table of contents. I think this would be a very useful option, since I use iWork to create technical documents
There are normally three ways to create a TOC (Table of Contents). Which did you try to use?
1) Bookmarks: Most applications and non-graphic only devices will interpret a list of bookmarks as a TOC if exported properly as part of the PDF file. Unfortunately, Pages does not appear to export this data as part of the file export or does so in such a way that the bookmarks are not recognized by other applications/devices including Apple's own Preview. If this is what you are trying to do, you would need to use a secondary application to re-bookmark your content. (NOTE: Don't use Preview for this as its bookmarks are also not recognized by other applications/device and only work when using Preview as the reader.)
2) Pages "Insert TOC" Option: This option should produce a a working TOC that will work on non-graphic only devices and/or applications that allow touch, stylus, cursor movement, etc to highlight/activate internal/external links. This form of active annotation has the advantage of being able to update and display page references automatically as you create the document. If this is what you tried to do and it didn't work, the most frequent problem is a failure on the part of the user to tag the text on the page you want included in the TOC with one of the "header" tags (i.e., h1 thru h6). Properly tagging your text will allow the selected text to be automatically added to your TOC along with the page number on which the text is tagged if desired. Further, tagging the text allows you to redefine the style of that tag at any time you wish and apply the change to all other text similarly tagged.
3) Manual Links: The third option is highlight selected text in your document and add it manually to your bookmark list. Then you would select the text (either on a manually created TOC page or anywhere else in your document) and link it manually to one of your bookmark entries. As you can see, this process can be much more time consuming but should work under the same conditions mentioned above regarding the auto-generated TOC. This option does not require tagging of the content nor does it prohibit it.

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Hi,
How can i find the Table of Content in a particular PDF?.
Is this possible in itext?
Thanks,
nithi.

When converting a FrameMaker book to PDF, the PDF may include bookmarks for additional paragraph tags (on top of those specified in the book's PDF setup)
The workaround is to specify PDF Setup in the individual file. For example, open your TOC, select Format > Document > PDF Setup, and make sure that the Heading1TOC, Heading2TOC... paragraph tags are not included in the bookmark setup.
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Lose table of contents in pdf?

I just noticed that I downloaded a pdf that had a table of contents, and when I used "Save As" to give it a new name in a new location, it no longer had a table of contents. Do you lose the TOC this way, or is there a way to unhide it that I'm not aware of?
I realize I could just rename and move the file in the Finder, but sometimes it's more convenient just to use Save As if I've got the pdf open (even though it might be slow to save).

I have noticed the same problem - and in addition the saved file is often larger than the original. Here's a link to an example file (from a particle physics database):
http://uk.arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0602/0602011.pdf
The original file has a table of contents and is about 88K big; if I take a second copy using "save as" in preview, the size jumps to 184K, and the ToC is lost. Any explanation would be welcome! (I posted this question before, but no reply so far.)
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Edit Table of Contents

I'm writing a novel using Pages 5
Using the Help notes I've attempted to create a Table of Contents doing the following:-
1. Insert page numbers in footer and justify to centre.
2. Allocate a page for TOC and click Insert TOC
3. Select Heading 2 for my chapter heading.
The TOC automatically generates itself.
For Example
Chapter One
3
Chapter Two
5
Could you please advise me how to edit to create
Chapter One..................................Page 3
Chapter Two..................................Page 5
etc
I select Table of Contents/Text in the Inspector, but what do I do next?

This solved my question.
Dear Peter,
Thanks, yet again, for your help.
I now have a table of contents worthy of the name.
As you pointed out the page numbers no longer link to the pages to which they refer, and I will have to learn how to bookmark to replace that functionality.
At the moment my research in that area is suggesting that I must go through Hyperlink and Bookmark, but it's early days in my investigation, that might change yet.
I agree with your assessment of the latest Pages, that is why I'm hanging on to Version 4.3 tightly. And I like your feedback idea of 'post in the App Store' I had a quick mental picture of me armed with scrolls reading
'Give us Back our Word Processor';
a bucket of paste;
and a long wide-head-brush, sneaking up to my local store.
I recon if I chose a busy School Holiday, I could get about five pasted over the glass doors before I got arrested.
Thanks again,
have some more points, {as soon as I find out how to give them to you!}
Petra.

Dynamic Table of Content (For specific String)

Dear Experts,
I want to table of content ( Index page).
Create index page at beginning of page or at last of the page with only three contents.
1. Record Number
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3. Page No.
For Example,
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1                    Technical Specs             2
2                    Technical Details            4
3                    Types of Machine           7
4                    Price of Machine            8
Here all Title is in different Group Header, Sub Report-Group Header, Details and Footer as a TEXT OBJECT.
So How Can I can prepare Index Page?
i hope you understand all my requirements.
Thanks & Regards,
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Sheri,
This isn't possible at the moment. Pages for iPad can only handle external links.

Can anyone explain how to make a clickable table of content for my cookbook

I want a table of contents at the front of the book, then folks can click the recipe that they want to make and will automatically be paged forward to that exact recipe.

Sheri,
This isn't possible at the moment. Pages for iPad can only handle external links.

Table of Contents for a hymnal

I am using Indesign CC (Creative Cloud). We are putting together a hymnal supplement for a church hymnal. Instead of page numbers, there is a reference number for each hymn. This eases confusion with the congregant not having to decide if the number that is announced is a hymn number or a page number.
I set up the hymn titles with 2 paragraphs: one is the hymn reference number (e.g., 2001, 2002, 2003, …); the 2nd paragraph is the hymn title. The hymn reference number paragraph style has the alignment of "Away from spine" so that the hymn references are left-most on left-hand (even) pages and right-most on right-hand pages. Note: There can be more than one hymn or sung acclamation on a given page.
Now I want to create a Table of Contents that has both the reference number and the hymn title. I find that I cannot do this because I am using 2 paragraph styles. However, if I combine both the hymn reference number and the hymn title into one paragraph, then I cannot use the alignment of "Away from spine".
What I want the pages to look like are are something like:
Page 2 (even page):
     2001     Hymn title 1
     2002     Hymn title 2
Page 3 (odd page):
     Hymn title 3     2003
     Hymn title 4     2004
     Hymn title 5     2005
Then, this is what I would like the Table of Contents to look like:
     2001     Hymn title 1
     2002     Hymn title 2
     2003     Hymn title 3
     2004     Hymn title 4
     2005     Hymn title 5
I already looked at the forum entry for:
     http://forums.adobe.com/message/5947413#5947413
In a book how can I combine two lines of a chapter title into one TOC entry?
Any ideas on how I could procede?

Thank you for your quick response. I have been trying several methods over the last few days.
Method 1: I created anchored text objects (with an attribute on non-printing), which I use to place notes in the outside margins of the text frames. I then type the hymn number and the hymn title into the note, with a tab character betweeen the two of them. Each object is anchored at the end of the text, just before the paragraph mark. I have the following paragraph styles in my Table of Contents:
     Mass settings          (major header)               Heading level 1
     Hymn information     (intermediate header)     Heading level 2
When I generate the table of contents, the problem is that the ordering is wrong. This is because anchored objects have a ordering that is established when one creates the object. However, I could not find how I could re-order the order of the objects. From some other forum items I read, I discovered that this ordering is not the same at that of the objects in the the layers palette.
How can one change the ordering of the anchored objects, so that they occur in the correct order in the Table of Contents.
Method 2: How does one use an "automatic text variable" to select a portion of the text from a preceding paragraph? I would like to try this method when I get a chance.

Export a dashboard table with content to pdf

Hey,
I have an dashboard table which I call over an URL in HTML. The content of the html file inserts an SWF file. And now I want to add in this SWF file an export button so the user can export the whole SWF file to an pdf file. Is there an completed solution for this export?
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Hi, I mean the table has been time enabled with the procedure DBMS_WM.EnableVersioning and TRUE for the parameter VALID_TIME.
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EXECUTE DBMS_WM.EnableVersioning ('employees', 'VIEW_WO_OVERWRITE', FALSE, TRUE);
Following the Workspace Manager Developer's Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) it could be possible export the table using the Export procedure:
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but I am getting the error:
ORA-20171: WM error: Export not supported on a table with valid time.
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How to create an editable table in webdynpro for ABAP? Help!

Hi Experts,
I have a requirement where I have to create a webdynpro for ABAP table for new row/rows entry, delete row/rows and update row/rows data. This is something like table control in normal ABAP.
how can I achieve this? Is there any such feature in ALV component?
Any code sample will be really helpfull.
Please help!
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Gopal

Hi,
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How to set url in .jhm file to open specific table of content for javaHelp

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I need help on to set the url for mapping JavaHelp
Inside my JavaHelp content, i used to have a main topic and sub topic, for example:
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No, you can't use this for pagination on a desktop device.
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How to add note to underlined text for pdf within Preview

Sometimes I can right-click in underlined or highlighted text in Preview and get an option "add note" so that there's a text box without an balloon icon (like the one you get by pressing control+N). But it is so tricky that I have to try several times before the option appears. Is there any easy way to do it?

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