Preview ToC

Saved PDF's lose the Table of Contents option in Preview.
When I view a PDF through a web browser, Safari 3.1.1 for example, and ctrl+click on the PDF to select "open with Preview" (v 3.0.9) I can see the Table of Contents option in the Drawer next to the Search bar. However, if I SAVE the PDF, the Table of Contents option goes away. Does anyone have any idea why the ToC disappears after a PDF is saved?
Thanks for any input.

Can't find one with a ToC at the moment... what Page number does it say it is?

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Preview - missing TOC

I apologize if this has been posted before, but I couldn't find anything with search.
I downloaded a huge PDF file and, as is my habit, right clicked and selected "Open with Preview". Everything was great until I did a SAVE AS (with defaults). Then the Table of Contents disappeared; even the button to show it was gone. I tried quitting Preview and reopening the file. Same deal, no TOC. Acrobat was the same. Saving the page right from Safari and then using Preview to open it works ok; the TOC appears normally. What am I missing?
Here's the URL, but be warned it's huge!
http://www.unna.org/unna/apple/documentation/developer/ProgrammersGuideOS2.0.pdf
iMac 17 Mac OS X (10.4.2) Preview Version 3.0.8 (409)

Let's cut the BS.
***THIS IS A BUG.****
The reason very few people report it is that 99.99% of the victims never realised it happened. If you download a pdf it is stored in /tmp and opens by default in Preview. You then immediately do a 'Save as' if you want to keep it. That destroys the TOC if there is one. The user does not notice because they never knew there was a TOC! Hence no bug reports.
I only noticed because I pulled down a 13MB 2500 page document which took a significant time to process and I watched the TOC vanish in front of my eyes.
I have wondered for months why very few of my downloaded pdfs seemed to have TOCs. Now I know why.
I have reproduced this on two different machines, a PowerMac G5 and a MacBook Pro Core Duo. It is a rock solid reproducible bug.
PowerMac G5 and MacBook Pro Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8) The file used is http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/fullrefman.pdf

How can I see what my eBook looks like in Mac Preview?

I just wrote and published an ebook online. Some of my customers who use a Mac have mentioned the Table of Contents has weird symbols in it.
It looks fine on my Windows machine.
Turns out they are using the Macintosh Preview program to view my pdf file and my eBook is showing up odd when using that program. It works fine in Adobe Reader for Mac users, but not when they use Preview.
Is there a program I can download to my Windows computer which will emmulate the Mac Preview program so that I can see what it looks like using that software?
Thanks

UPDATE:
A customer sent me a screen shot of the table of contents. I used Microsoft Word to create the Table of Contents which made the table contents clickable (i.e. click on the section and you'll jump to it in the ebook).
I'm betting the problem lies with the fact that I used Microsoft Word to create the TOC and make it clickable.
Any thoughts on how to fix this while keeping the TOC clickable?
Also, I'd still like to know if there's a Preview program I can install on my Windows machine.
Thanks again

Preview bug regarding Table of Contents and Annotations

I'm involved in a paperless pilot project and am having a difficult time circumventing an issue in Preview.
I'm re-formatting material for executive meetings from WordPerfect, Word, Excel and PowerPoint into bookmarked PDF format in Adobe Acrobat Pro X. When they are opened in Preview by senior management on MacBook Airs, the Table of Contents links everywhere correctly. However, the moment they add an annotation (in this case, notes), the table of contents is thrown one page off, regardless of their place in the document. Even after removing the note, the table of contents does not revert to the proper place. I'm assuming this occurs because the annotation throws off the markers from the imported bookmarks.
Using Acrobat Reader on the Airs isn't an option since annotations aren't possible. We are also really trying to keep production of the PDFs limited to Acrobat Pro to ensure cross-platform compatibility of the Table of Contents.
Has anyone else encountered these issues? Is there a potential workaround?

A lightweight alternative to Acrobat Pro for creating a TOC is PDFOutliner ($5 on the Mac App Store.) Adding annotations later to the PDF does not affect the TOC generated by PDFOutliner.
Note: I am the developer of PDFOutliner.

Here's How to change the image on the TOC to be different for each chapter.

Suppose you don't follow the Very Strict default Rule that you use the exact same image parameters (shape, pixels, size, etc.) for your Table of Contents image entry as you use for its associated Chapter, a requirement built in to iBooks Author that applies universally to ALL Chapters under the One Image Size and Location is Best For Everyone rule. Suppose you start adding chapters and messing with each chapter's image and then, later, it occurs to you to get the TOC all set up and when you go there you encounter a mess. Either by chance one of the images you had in one of your chapters found its way to the TOC and, gosh, now every TOC entry for every chapter has the very same exact size and location image! This is not part of your grand plan and then... how to make lemonade here? It's Not Obvious.
You can resolve this in your favor. You must do this patiently.
First, whatever image size is created in any chapter TOC window—by dragging the image placeholder handle re-size box—will apply to ALL image entries (i.e., chapter image entries) in the TOC . If you want maximum flexibility make the image placeholder box big. Hint: you may need to mess with the Edit Mask option in order to get the image placeholder size box in the size and location you want. An option here in preparing your images is to **** with Photoshop or Preview to really engineer the images that will be used for the Chapter Page and, separately, the TOC / these could be the same content images but formatted differently in order to look nice in their respective locations. The Chapter Page image can be manipulated on the Chapter Page. On the other hand, the TOC image must fit within whatever (universal) size you've created.
Plan ahead
Get your TOC images ready.
Loop until done:
a) from the Finder menu, right click on the filename of the image to be put in the TOC / select the menu item “Copy”..this image. This puts the image in the clipboard. Another way to get the image in the clipboard is to pull it up with Preview and pretend to crop it (full size) then command-C. Another way: just click on it if it is in a file somewhere and again command-C.
b) Click on the Table of Contents option (near the top of the left navigation column in ibooks Author ) and navigate to the TOC chapter for this image by clicking on the correct chapter “button” (a white dot in a black background surrounded by a white rounded-corner box) in the center bottom of the TOC chapter window;
c) Click on the image placeholder in this chapter TOC window to reveal the highlight boxes defining the boundary of the image;
d)command-V (paste); Voila! the image is in the TOC. NOTE: dragging the image into the highlighted imagebox (see c) above) will NOT work.
e) mess with the image by clicking the mask editor button so the image fits as desired being careful to move the image only and not resize the image box.
Go back to loop and repeat.

Finally, after a while, I finally found all the procedure explained,
for those who need:
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/ToshibaS1/tecraS1_1.htm

Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard MS Word TOC

MS Office Word 2007
I Have created documents with a TOC.
The document headings are linked to the TOC for point and click functionality
After converting to PDF with Adobe 9 Standard I do have bookmarks but no TOC links.
I can create links manually from the TOC by highlighting and then creating the link in Adobe.
This is a painfully manual process for a large document. How can this be done through the application.
I have worked with all of the settings and cannot get this to work, so that the Adobe document TOC will have point and click functionality.

After trying out various options suggested in this forum, I have found another solution for Word TOC links in PDF.
My environment is as follows:
Windows Vista
Acrobat 9.0
Word 2007
Solution:
Open the Word document.
Place the mouse cursor at the beginning of the TOC field.
Right-click and choose Edit Field from the shortcut menu.
Click Table of Contents to open the Table of Contents dialog.
Select the Show page numbers checkbox.
Select the Use hyperlinks instead of page numbers checkbox.
Note: While the preview on the dialog removes the page numbers, they are not removed from your TOC page.
Click OK.
In the Word document, hover your mouse over a TOC entry. You will notice that the entire string (and not just the page number) is now hyperlinked.
Generate the PDF and verify if the TOC links work.

How to ceate pdf from Microsoft Word that contain TOC.

I just bought Adobe Acrobat Pro for Mac.
But I can not create a pdf with TOC from microsoft word. Both word 2011 & word 2016 preview doesn't work.
All through the print process, no chance to set pdf property.
I do know windows is ok. but mac doesn't work.

Thank you very much.
According to the compatible application table. Acrobat XI (October 2012) doesn't support any version of mac office!!!
Why adobe sell such a product to customer???
Acrobat 6 (April 2003)
Acrobat 7 (January 2005)
Acrobat 8 (November 2006)
Acrobat 9 (July 2008)
Acrobat X (November 2010)
Acrobat XI (October 2012)
Mac Office
Office X
√
√
√
x
x
x
Office 2004
N/A
√
√
x
x
x
Office 2008
x
x
x
x
x
x
Office 2011
x
x
x
x
x

Missing/corrupted non-english characters in Preview

I know there have been posts on this recently, but this is such a significant problem that I thought it worth keeping live.
Preview does not display non-english characters in PDFs properly. Things like greek characters are either displayed as the english equivalent or are missing or something else more bizzare. This happens on my MBP and my partners MB, both running Leopard. Acrobat, Word etc have no problems. I had no issues with Tiger
I would like to report this directly to Apple but I couldn't find how...

Suggestions
1) Try with NLS_LANG as
SWEDISH_SWEDEN.WE8DEC
2) Make a paramform and enter via paramform (unencoded)
(This is just for testing purpose)
3) Change machine locale to swedish and try
4) Which reports version is this ?
Please see
BUG 2713695 - NLS CHARACTERS FOR PARAMETERS CHANGE TO QUESTION MARKS WHEN PASSED ON URL BAR
Get in touch with Support to see if this is the issue and if "yes" get a one-off patch.
[    All Docs for all versions    ]
http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/reports.html
[     Publishing reports to web - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10314_01/toc.htm (html)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10314_01.pdf (pdf)
[   Building reports - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10602_01.pdf (pdf)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10602_01/toc.htm (html)
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http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/frm9isrw9i.pdf
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How to jump to a specific page of pdf document in preview?

How can you jump to a specific page of a large PDF document without having to continuously scroll down on the thumbnail sidebar?
Thanks.

I assume you are using Preview. If the PDF was created with an indexed table of contents, then choose View > Table of Contents. This will display the ToC in the sidebar, and you can click whatever section or page you want to go to. (There is also a button in the Toolbar to display or hide the sidebar.) If the document does not have a table of contents, or if you just want to go to a known page number, then Go > Go to Page….

Different resolution in preview and output format

Hi Folks
I need your help. We already captured a lot of e-learning material but come to a problem.
The output format quality is less good than the preview quality.
Win7 /Captivate 6
Capture resolution for software simulation is 1024x768.
Producing the material in swf and html. No compressing, set to best quality.
Open the preview: quality is nearly the same as the original source.
Open the swf directly or the html --> output looks cloudy, diffuse.
Test with an without scalable html. In case of scalable html it is hard to find the right resolution (1024x768) on a 1280x1024 resolution monitor, but you can find it and the the output is clear as the preview.
The output format resolution within the project is set to 1024x768. We measured the "true" output resolution on different produced output formats, and they are all a little bit higher than 1024x768, about 4% more heigh and width.
Of course, I was able to change the html-script which sets the start-format for an swf to open, if I change it to 1024x768 and save it, the quality of the swf is like the preview and sharp and ok. But in case of scalable html I cannot set the format. However, why the swf -even when i start/opeen it directly- didn't start with the right resolution set in the settings within the project?
Also our target group should not "search" for the sharp resolution by scaling the output window.
Why does captivate change the resolution? why is the preview ok and the produced swf not? I didn't understand that fact.
Also we like to produce with TOC, so the widht for TOC is 250. If I change the html script in that case to 1024+250=1274x768 the swf is also unshapr/cloudy and I havee no change to fit it to the right resolution (1024+TOC).
Regards
Rob

Vamsi mailed me offline and I have suggested looking at Using RH7 on my site where this problem is covered.
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Preview: problems viewing icons in sidebar

I have some PDFs that I have OCRed. When I view them in Preview, in the sidebar, I don't get icons of the pages, but a garbled table of contents view instead. It looks like somewhere in the OCR process, a table of contents was created, but it is filled with gibberish. Is there a way to force Preview to show the icons of the pages?

on the sidebar at the bottom there is a drop down button allowing you to select "Thumbnails... ToC... and Annotations". That should do it for ya. It's the middle button.

Applied styles aren't showing up in preview or generated file

I have added a number of new styles to my stylesheet. They show up fine in my Design view. However, once I apply them, then click on the preview button or even generate webhelp to see what they look like as generated, the styles are not showing up. What am I missing?
btw.. I am using RH10.
Thanks!
kb

Hi... it's happening in the generated output as well as the preview. I tried generating various outputs... same result... no styles applied - no apparent errors. Here's what appeared in the Output View for each:
Willam van Weelden wrote:
Is the style sheet you use present in the output folder? Does the output view show any errors? Is the problem only in preview/webhelp, or does it also occur in CHM/AIR?
It's a strange issue and we need a little more information to find out what is going on.
Kind regards,
Willam
HTML/CHM
Starting compilation...
HTMLHELP preprocessor 10.0.0.287
Compiling C:\Users\kbennett\Documents\My RoboHelp Projects\WEBHELP TEST\care console rev eng\!SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\!chm_tmp_folder_0\wcareconsole.chm ...
Preparing to create HTMLHELP...
Clearing output folder...
Preparing files for HTML Help...
Copying files...
Updating files...
Finished preparing in 1 sec(s)
Initializing compiler...
Generating HTMLHELP (10.0.0.287)...
Updating topics...
Updating wcareconsole.htm...
Warning: The size of stop file has to be limited in 512 bytes.
C:\Users\kbennett\Documents\My RoboHelp Projects\WEBHELP TEST\care console rev eng\!SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\!chm_tmp_folder_0\wcareconsole.hhp
Microsoft HTML Help Compiler 4.74.8702
Compiling c:\Users\kbennett\Documents\My RoboHelp Projects\WEBHELP TEST\care console rev eng\!SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\wcareconsole.chm
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "CommonTips.bmp" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "pencil.gif" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "downarrow2.jpg" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "downarrow1.jpg" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "ex_blue_sm.jpg" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "consolemain.jpg" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "HelpBook.bmp" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "Glossary.bmp" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "HotKeys.bmp" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "CTMtodo.jpg" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "todotip.jpg" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
HHC4006: Warning:
The file "setup1.jpg" is already listed in the [FILES] section of the project file.
wcareconsole.hhc
wcareconsole.hhk
wcareconsole.htm
CommonTips.bmp
consolemain.jpg
CTMtodo.jpg
downarrow1.jpg
downarrow2.jpg
ehlpdhtm.js
ex_blue_sm.jpg
Glossary.bmp
HelpBook.bmp
HotKeys.bmp
main - disclaimer and copyright.htt
HHC3004: Warning:
main - disclaimer and copyright.htt :
The HTML tag "?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
main - disclaimer and copyright.htt :
The HTML tag "?rh-region_start type="body" ?" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
main - disclaimer and copyright.htt :
The HTML tag "?rh-region_end type="body" ?" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
pencil.gif
setup1.jpg
SSbag03crop.gif
todotip.jpg
uparrow-Orange.bmp
wcareconsole.glo
wcareconsole.brs
#BSSC
default.css
orange_up.jpg
ACCESSccConsole.png
BUTTON_heartstart.png
HEADING1bar.PNG
RoboHHRE.lng
wcareconsole.hhc
wcareconsole.hhk
Processing keywords...
Generating full-text search data...
Compacting file system...
Compile time: 0 minutes, 1 second
4 Topics
55 Local links
0 Internet links
0 Graphics
Created c:\Users\kbennett\Documents\My RoboHelp Projects\WEBHELP TEST\care console rev eng\!SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\wcareconsole.chm, 771,996 bytes
Compression decreased file by 320,796 bytes.
Finished compiling HTMLHELP in 3 sec(s)
Compilation complete.
for AIR output - still no improvement and the output view shows no apparent errors:
Starting compilation...
Adobe AIR output preprocessor 10.0.0.287
Compiling C:\Users\kbennett\Documents\My RoboHelp Projects\WEBHELP TEST\care console rev eng\!SSL!\Adobe_AIR\BrowserBasedHelp\index.htm ...
Preparing Adobe AIR output...
Warning (CommonTips.bmp) : Adobe AIR cannot render BMP image in HTML.Converting to PNG format.
Warning (Glossary.bmp) : Adobe AIR cannot render BMP image in HTML.Converting to PNG format.
Warning (HelpBook.bmp) : Adobe AIR cannot render BMP image in HTML.Converting to PNG format.
Warning (HotKeys.bmp) : Adobe AIR cannot render BMP image in HTML.Converting to PNG format.
Warning (uparrow-Orange.bmp) : Adobe AIR cannot render BMP image in HTML.Converting to PNG format.
Finished preparing in 1 sec(s)
Initializing compiler...
Generating Adobe AIR SSL 1.0 (10.0.0.287)...
Processing TOC data...
Processing Index data...
Processing Glossary data...
Processing Context-sensitive-Help data...
Updating HTML topics...
Updating wcareconsole.htm...
Finished updating HTML topics in 1 sec(s) : total 1 topic(s).
Processing Full-text-search data...
Finished processing Full-Text-Search data in 0 sec(s)
Applying Adobe AIR SSL 1.0 Template...
Finished applying Template in 1 sec(s)
Processing Mark of the Web...
Added result path to RoboHelp.cfg
Finished compiling content 'Content' in 3 sec(s)
Finished compiling Adobe AIR output in 3 sec(s)
here's what comes up for WebHelp:
Starting compilation...
WebHelp preprocessor 10.0.0.287
Clearing output folder...
Compiling C:\Users\kbennett\Documents\My RoboHelp Projects\WEBHELP TEST\care console rev eng\!SSL!\WebHelp\index.htm ...
Preparing to create WebHelp...
Preparing files for WebHelp...
Copying files...
Updating files...
Finished preparing in 0 sec(s)
Initializing compiler...
Generating WebHelp 5.50 (10.0.0.287)...
Processing TOC data...
Processing Index data...
Processing Glossary data...
Processing Context-sensitive-Help data...
Updating HTML topics...
Updating wcareconsole.htm...
Finished updating HTML topics in 0 sec(s) : total 1 topic(s).
Processing Full-text-search data...
Finished processing Full-Text-Search data in 0 sec(s)
Applying WebHelp 5.50 Template...
Finished applying Template in 2 sec(s)
Processing Mark of the Web...
Finished compiling WebHelp in 3 sec(s)
Compilation complete.
anything? It's a puzzlement for me... and I suspect I'm missing something really simple.
Thanks for your help!
I'm going to try removing the updated css and replacing it with the old one that did work. brb.

Linked PDF files won't open in Preview

I have a a few Table of Content PDF files linked to a large number of PDF files in subdirectories (the old AGES library system). When I try to open the linked file in Preview i get an error saying that I don't have permission to open this file. Adobe Reader works fine and I can open the individual files in preview but trying to open them from the TOC PDF file doesn't work. Repair permissions says everything is fine. I'd rather not install Adobe Reader so is there something I'm missing in trying to get Preview to work?
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I can suggest a workaround, though I don't know what the cause of the problem is. It just showed up recently in my installation of MacOSX 10.8.5.
I opened all the files that had difficulty with permissions. Then I closed them and opened the file with the links (the Table of Contents file). At that point the links worked. Go figure.
Opening the Table of Contents file first and then opening and closing the problem files resulted in the links taking me to the first page of the linked document, rather than the correct page within it.
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The TOC does not open in WebHelp Generated with RoboHelp 11. I tried other solutions posted on this forum but no success. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for responding! I uninstalled and reinstalled RoboHelp 11 and the WeHelp appears to display OK now. BUT, I have graphics in my project that are not displaying, only the empty placeholder for the graphics. This was displaying fine in WebHelp generated with RoboHelp 9 but not now. I see the graphics when I do “Preview Topic” but not in the generated WebHelp. Any clues what is causing this behavior? How can I correct it?
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Table of Contents Showing on Desktop, but not in iPad preview

The table of contents was working just fine, meaning that it showed in both the work on the desktop and then when I sent a preview to the iPad.
I'm not sure what I have done, but now, while the TOC shows on the desktop version, it doesn't show up in the iPad preview.
Not sure where to start to solve this. Any help or tips would be great.

Update: I don't know why, but it has started working again on its own. I suspect that shutting down everything and restarting helped, but I don't know for sure. I'm just glad it is working again! Peace.

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