Extract Title and specific table of content/pages in set of PDF's

I need to extract the title of each PDF and a specific content and its pages. For example i have a folder full of PDF's and i need to find in the Table of Contents a heading called Enhancements if there. If Enhancement content is there copy the Title of the PDF usually on first page and copy the Enhancement section and place in another PDF as chronology of enhancements.I have AA Standard X
What tool can do this?

You could certainly use the SDK to write a custom plugin to Acrobat (in C/C++) that would do what you require. It's not trivial, however.

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Table of Contents page numbers works for PDF but not for other formats

Hi,
I followed exactly was indicated here regarding creation of TOC.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/e12187/T421739T481157.htm
The page numbers generated correctly for PDF but not for RTF, HTML and XLS.
(HTML and XLS are understandably not paginated in nature but why not in RTF?)
Tried to make the simplest example work, with 2 headings each on a separate page. Doesn't work on either MSWord 2003 or 2007.
What am I doing wrong?
Regards,
Jarell
Edited by: Jarell on Jan 11, 2012 8:08 PM

Hi Kavipriya,
What is your email address? I have attached a file in Oracle Metalink, under SR 3-5172030861. named test_toc.rtf
You may use any xml because the template does not use any dynamic binding of values.
The template is basically 2 pages, the TOC in the 1st page. First TOC item (Heading 1) is in Page 1, and Second TOC item is in Page 2.
So the end result should be (PDF result from BI Publisher):
First TOC Item .................. 1
Second TOC Item ............. 2
But for RTF it outputs:
First TOC Item .................. 0
Second TOC Item ............. 0
And after doing Print Preview (once or twice)
First TOC Item .................. Error in Bookmark
Second TOC Item ............. Error in Bookmark
Hope this is detailed enough to illustrate the problem.
Edited by: Jarell on Jan 17, 2012 10:24 PM

Creating a table of contents page using combined documents

Adobe Version 7.0
When combining multiple documents as one .pdf document, can a table of contents page be set up simultaneously? If so, can page numbers be added?
We have several type of documents (.xls, doc, pdf) that we combine on a regular basis to create one document to view on line and/or print in a book format. We manually type a Table of Contents page to correspond with those documents and manually insert page numbers. Is there a better way?

I would suggest you create the base document in WORD and then print all to a new PDF. That may provide the functionality you want with an automatic table of contents creation.

How do I add a title to my table of contents in Pages?

I am attempting to write a research paper using the paragraph styles and headings features. I have also added a table of contents, which looks great and allows me to jump to each section of the paper. HOWEVER, I can't seem to be able to title that table of contents page. All I want it to say is "Table of Contents", which should be simple, right? I don't want to put it in the header because APA formatting is very particular about how all of this stuff should look, so this title needs to really be in the body of the page. How do I make this happen?
Many thanks.

The TOC is a block of text.
Get your cursor in front of it by clicking or using your arrow keys, then hit return to make a new paragraph before the TOC and type your Head in that.
Peter

Sections and Automatic Table of Contents

Hello there,
I have encountered a problem with InDesign while trying to make an automatic TOC for a journal I am working on. It has something to do with Sections.
So I have a book with several indd files. The very first indd file is called "frontpages" which includes the cover page, the inside cover, the leaf page, then two facing pages for the table of contents, then followed by the last page (Letter from the Editor).
This is followed by my second indd file called "newsbeats" which has 5 pages.
Now, what I wanted to do was mark the frontpages' page numbers using lower case roman numerals (i, ii, iii, etc.) Of course I do not want to include the cover page and the inside cover, so I want to start (i) with the leaf page, (ii) and (iii) marks the table of contents pages, and finally (iv) for the Editor's Letter. I did this by starting a section at the leaf page, START PAGE NUMBERNG AT: 1, and selecting the (i, ii, iii...) option. It worked, while leavingboth the cover page and and the inside cover with markers (a) and (b), which I previously set (because I do not know how to just get rid of the page number...)
Now, my book pages actually starts page (1) in the first page of the "newsbeats" document. So to do that, I made another section on the newsbeats first page, START PAGE NUMBERING AT: 1, and selected (1, 2, 3...). That works, too.
So at the moment, I have 3 sections to my page numbers: 1) the lower case letters (a, b) section for the cover page and inside cover, respectively; 2) the roman numerals section (i, ii, iii...) for the leafpage, table of contents, and Editor Letter; and lastly, 3) the arabic letters (1, 2, 3...) starting from the newsbeats document all the way to the last page of the last indd of my book.
Hope it is clear enough. Now here comes the problem:
When I try to create an automatic Table of Contents, it correctly finds my chapters (i used the style for each journal article's title) and lists them. The problem is, the page numbers do not appear correctly. Instead, it shows "a" on EACH AND EVERY table of contents ENTRY. I tried some trial and error, and found out that the pages shown (a bunch of "a") is actually the COVER PAGE'S (a) page number....
I tried for hours searching on topics like "Sections and Automatic TOC" or "How to selectively choose which pages to include in a TOC".. But I found none.
Your help would be really appreciated. I can easily manually type the page numbers (my journal only has 9 articles), but I wanted to do this in a very systematic way, so it would be a lot easier if in any case, there are more than 9 articles for next year's publication.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
- Larry
PS: I attached a file showing the generated table of contents (on the ii-iii page that I wanted it to appear on), with the frontpages page panel, which shows the page numbering as well. Also I included the Book Panel, so you see how the pages are set up.

We definitely experienced the same issue. Seems like pages just get lost. This is the approach I took:
On the groups main page we just added a link called 'View All Articles' wrapped in a h1 tag (to make it very big and visible to the user) using the following url:
search/?q=%20
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I created a book in iBooks Author using the Photo Book template. When I rotate to portrait orientation, the photo or widget disappears and a table of contents appears with only the interactive media showing.

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Thanx for the prompt response, KT. I have indeed seen that thread, only just after I posted the question.
I have spent hours on the phone with what I now know is a call center in Texas on this question.
I think Apple could be a little more "hands on" with iBooks Author users, and it should also be pointed out that landscape photos will not display in portrait mode.
In my case, I used gallery widgets to display vertical photos, since they look better in portrait mode.
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Shaded band on Table of Contents page

Hi everyone
I wonder if anyone can help me with a query on the Table of Contents page? Everything is looking good except that at the bottom of the page there is a shaded square on the left and a band all the way across the page and extending beyond the green b/g. It doesn't look like it is part of the design of the TOC page and is a bit unattractive. This is the "Natural Science" template.
In chapters where I have lots of sections in the contents list, the section names do not show up well in this shaded part. I have moved everything around on the page so that the text box with the section names is on the RH side and the heading on the left, but this section text box has to be pushed further up the page because of the lower shaded band and looks a bit unnatural there.
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I can help a bit by saying that those shaded areas at the bottom are placeholders for the thumbnails or preview images of your chapter's sections and pages. When working properly it looks like a film strip.
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Is there a site-wide title tag that I can edit or are the title tags specific to each individual page?

Is there a site-wide title tag that I can edit or are the title tags specific to each individual page? I'm working on my title tags for Destination West at http://xibuhaohua.com and as you can see, it is in Chinese here as 西部豪华 but it's English here at Destination West. So, I'd like to know if I can edit each separately because I think they should be in different languages.

You can set the title for each page in the Page Properties dialog.
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HT5071 Please Help! how do I fix this error: "The title of the Table of Contents in portrait view is placeholder text : Book Title. Please redeliver your corrected full book file with a custom preview file. "

Urgent.
I have been not approved of this error
been back and forth with Apple
The title of the Table of Contents in portrait view is placeholder text : Book Title. Please redeliver your corrected full book file with a custom preview file. The book will not go live in the store without a matching custom preview file."
1st, how do you clarify the Table of Contents issue. No idea what I am doing wrong
2nd what is a customr preview file? I uploaded a sample book already.
Please advise ASAP
my email: [email protected]
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Find/Change Item Numbers and create Table of Contents

Hello! I need help to find all my item numbers and apply a paragraph style to it so I can use them to create a Table of Contents page.
Sample item numbers
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I tried entering #^?^?^?^?^? on the Find/Change box and but this will find exactly the 5 characters after the # sign. I wonder if you can find all characters starting with # and until the last characters.
Once I find all the item numbers, how can I apply the paragraph style for only those characters after the # sign? Because I only want to show the item numbers without the # sign on the Table of contents/Index page.
By the way, I have InDesign CS2 which have no GREP function Maybe I can do this without the GREP?
I really appreciate any help. Thank you very much.

You actually have two problems here. The first is to assign the paragraph style. For that you can use GREP.
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It's also possible someone has written (or could write) a script that can find text strings that match a pattern such as your numers, assign a character style to them (you could actually do that part in the paragraph style by adding a nested GREP style), then making a list of the text strings along with the page number on which they appear -- almost the same as an index except it would be based on character style, not an index marker.

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Can you double space a table of contents page?

Sorry for this newbie question. I have searched help and the forum and I can't find an answer that helps me. I have a document that I'm working with and the table of contents if functional. However, I would like to doublespace the table of contents lines and I can't figure out how to do that. Would anyone have any suggestions? Thank You for your time!

Select the TOC then Inspector > T tab > Text > Line , there is a small button to the right >Double
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Table of Contents - Page Range

I am formatting a catalog in Indesign CS5 and I am trying to work out snags now before our vendors send in their files. I have a simple template with the Product Classification and the Section at the top of each page (created as master pages, different master for each section but all based on the same master) and I want to automate a Table of Contents to include each Product classification. I formatted each product class with the same paragraph style and when I generate the TOC, it simply lists each page number instead of a range which is what I would expect it to do. For example:
Product Classification A........2
Product Classification A........3
Product Classification A........4
The same product class runs across multiple pages, and because I have the paragraph style applied in the master page they show up as individual TOC entries.   I was wondering if there was a way to automate the TOC with page ranges, instead of just each instance of the paragraph style. The only workaround I could come up with was just including the text that I want to show in TOC on a hidden layer on the first page of the page range with the correct paragraph style applied to each one and then typing the range in manually after my whole catalog is finished. Or I could just let ID do its thing and then delete the unecessary entries when it's updated.
I need it to look like this:
Product Classification A.......2-4
Product Classification B.......5-10
Better yet, I need the heirarchy to look like this if possible:
Section
     Product Classification A.......2-4
     Product Classification B.......5-10
In order for items to show up in an automated TOC, they have to be overridden in the document (if they are on master pages)...so I don't think I could even automate it this last way unless I would override all master items, which would cause more harm than good in this case ( I never know when something might change).
Could someone offer a solution or another workaround that might be easier than just typing out the TOC and formatting it by hand?
Thanks in advance.

The commercial InDesign Cross-References Plug-In from dtptools.com might work for you. There are some free supplementary scripts mentioned on the product page that you can request. One creates a TOC by using cross-references to extract source content that you specify. It works a lot like the built-in InDesign TOC tool, but it may be more customizable. There's a free trial. If you can't make it do what you need, often an email to their support techs will get a prompt reply (allowing for time differences between Europe and wherever you are) and some useful suggestions.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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samallen3 wrote:
I am formatting a catalog in Indesign CS5 and I am trying to work out snags now before our vendors send in their files. I have a simple template with the Product Classification and the Section at the top of each page (created as master pages, different master for each section but all based on the same master) and I want to automate a Table of Contents to include each Product classification. I formatted each product class with the same paragraph style and when I generate the TOC, it simply lists each page number instead of a range which is what I would expect it to do. For example:
Product Classification A........2
Product Classification A........3
Product Classification A........4
The same product class runs across multiple pages, and because I have the paragraph style applied in the master page they show up as individual TOC entries.   I was wondering if there was a way to automate the TOC with page ranges, instead of just each instance of the paragraph style. The only workaround I could come up with was just including the text that I want to show in TOC on a hidden layer on the first page of the page range with the correct paragraph style applied to each one and then typing the range in manually after my whole catalog is finished. Or I could just let ID do its thing and then delete the unecessary entries when it's updated.
I need it to look like this:
Product Classification A.......2-4
Product Classification B.......5-10
Better yet, I need the heirarchy to look like this if possible:
Section
     Product Classification A.......2-4
     Product Classification B.......5-10
In order for items to show up in an automated TOC, they have to be overridden in the document (if they are on master pages)...so I don't think I could even automate it this last way unless I would override all master items, which would cause more harm than good in this case ( I never know when something might change).
Could someone offer a solution or another workaround that might be easier than just typing out the TOC and formatting it by hand?
Thanks in advance.

Table of contents pages are all messed up

Yikes.
I brought in a photoshop file for each chapter as the chapter title. On the chapters it looks great.
On the table of contents it's using the same photoshop file and quote for all twenty chapters, but it does change the photos for each chapter.
I can't delete the text boxes either.
So, how do I make it so the table of contents recognizes what text and chapter headers are on the actual pages?
Many, many thanks!

Can't get marching ants. Here are photos so you see what could be going wrong.
Here's how the chapter looks in the book:
Here's how the table of Contents looks:
The text is exactly the same for every chapter. If I change it it does an overalll change for every chapter page in the TOC.
Thank you so much for any help,
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