PDF Outline

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Understanding the Difference between Bookmarks and the Outline in a PDF

Creating a Table-of-Contents with PDF.js

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/tree/master/examples/node

CreateOptions, addOutline, insertOutline

Tools

{Adoc, TOC.json} -> [] -> html1

html1 -> [] -> PDF1

PDF1 -> [toc.js] -> TOC.json

• Parse PDF with pdf.js library https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
• Measure page numbers for Chapters, Sections.
• Number of pages

{PDF1, TOC.json} -> [] -> PDF2

• based on printed PDF and TOC.json
• parse PDF1 using pdf-lib https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib
• add headers and footers. page numbers
• add Outline using https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib/pull/486
• save modified PDF2

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More links

• https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/pdf-explained/9781449321581/ch04.html
• https://medium.com/@jberkenbilt/the-structure-of-a-pdf-file-6f08114a58f6
• https://github.com/lillallol/outline-pdf-cjs

getOutline