Mapsoft TOCBuilder
Combine the advantages of both a printed and digital TOC.
TOCBuilder is an Adobe® Acrobat plug-in that allows you to:
- create a Table of Contents for your PDF document.
- use the bookmark list to provide the TOC structure.
- link the TOC entries with links identical to the page targets of the bookmarks.
- use existing bookmarks or run Mapsoft BookMarker that can be used to define the bookmark list.
Operations
Each entry within the Table of Contents can show the appropriate page for that entry (as in a traditional Table of Contents for a printed document). In addition each entry within the Table of Contents is also linked to the actual heading within the document to which that entry relates. Selecting that link from within the Table of Contents will cause the focus in the document to jump to the relevant text. The Table of Contents is thus a powerful tool for navigating around your document.
The Table of Contents can be hierarchical,
with sub-sections being indented below
higher level sections, or it can be
flattened with all entries appearing at the
same level. Using options within the
TOCBuilder you control the positioning and
appearance of all the entries within a Table
of Contents.
TOCBuilder uses bookmarks found within a
document to generate the Table of Contents.
The bookmarks used by TOCBuilder to generate
a Table of Contents could have been created
directly within Acrobat, or they could have
been created by using the Mapsoft BookMarker tool.
BookMarker creates list of bookmarks from
the headings found within a document.
Typically, most large documents are
organised by chapter, section and
sub-section, and BookMarker uses these
different heading levels to create a
hierarchical set of bookmarks.
If the original bookmarks within a document
are hierarchical, then the resulting Table
of Contents will be hierarchical too. In a
hierarchy, subordinate items are indented to
the right. Each different heading level
within the Table of Contents will correspond
to one of the hierarchical levels within the
bookmark list. Thus, TOCBuilder will create
a level 1 Table of Contents entry for each
level 1 bookmark found within the document.
It will create a level 2 Table of Contents
entry for each level 2 bookmark and so on.
Options you specify to the TOCBuilder tool
control the appearance and positioning of
each different heading level within the
generated Table of Contents.
The number of levels to which the Table of
Contents can be nested depends on the level
to which the bookmarks have been nested. For
example, if bookmarks are nested to four
levels then you can set up to four different
levels of entries in a Table of Contents.
A tryout version of the product is available.