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add outlines (aka bookmarks) to PDF files

Synopsis

pdfoutline input.pdf outlines.txt output.pdf

Description

pdfoutline reads input file given as first argument, adds outlines from text file given as second argument, and saves result to file with name given as third argument.

File with outlines information should consist of lines in the following format:

<level> <page> Outline text

<level> and <page> should be integers. Each field should be separated by exactly one space symbol. All values for <level> should be greater or equal than that of the first line. Page numeration starts with 1.

Outlines file can contain comments that start with # in first column. Comments and empty lines are ignored. The text is expected to be in UTF-8 encoding.

Options

pdfoutline accepts no options.

Examples

Here is example of outlines data file:

0 1 Document title
1 1 Chapter 1
2 1 Chapter 1.1
2 2 Chapter 1.2
1 3 Chapter 2

Using this file will result in outlines like the following:

Document title
+-Chapter 1
| +-Chapter 1.1
| +-Chapter 1.2
+-Chapter 2

Author

pdfoutline author is Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@debian.org>
pdfoutline is part of fntsample and can be downoaded from <https://github.com/eugmes/fntsample>.

Referenced By

fntsample(1).

2024-07-17