How To Create a Table of Contents in a PDF Document

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009, C M Reinehr wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a FOSS way of adding a TOC to a PDf document? I'm 
>familiar with pdftk, ps2pdf, enscript, etc. but haven't been able to figure 
>out how to add a table of contents to a pdf document a la Adobe Acrobat. 
>Trying to Google for an answer is like looking for a needle in a hay stack 
>what with the words "table of contents" and PDF in a gazillion web pages.

I generally create the PDFs from scratch using DocBook and the
openjade tools which allow TOC and index creation.  Using these
tools permits one to create html and a variety of printable
formats from the same source.

Bill
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