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Re: mark /Action ... /OUT pdfmark

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In article <b6c9e548-3515-42ba-98e2-b12cfeeaea9e@googlegroups.com>, 
jdawiseman@gmail.com says...

> My file computes and adds to the PDF a Table of Contents, which has 
items made by code resembling:
> mark /Action /GoTo /Dest ?name?  /Color [0 0 0]  /F 0  /Title ?string?  /OUT pdfmark
> 
> Between clumps of such ToC items there should be some form of light separation or separator. I?m using a blank line made by the likes of:
> mark  /Action << >>  /Color [0 0 0]  /F 0  /Title ()  /OUT pdfmark

OK that's not a Table Of Contents, its a document outline. There is no 
specified method for displaying a document outline, but its pretty clear 
from the spec that its not intended to be a table of contents. Its a 
quick navigation set of links. It *might* correspond to pages, sections, 
chapters etc, but it just as easily might not.

The fact that the Title is a *required* entry suggests, to me at least, 
that empty fields aren't intended. Each element in a document outline is 
intended to be something you can click and it will do something (open a 
set of sub-nodes, jump to a destination etc).

There is very little control over the appearance of a document outline, 
you can specify the title, whether its regular, bold or italic text, and 
the colour used to draw the text.

 
> The ToC looks a nasty mess. The icons are bad on lines with text, but are ugly-tastic on otherwise blank lines. 

You posted a PNG of what you *didn't* like, but not the result you did 
like. Those of us not running Macs can't see what you were 
expecting.....


> Please, is it possible to do better with pdfmark? A light horizontal rule instead of the blank line? A setting meaning ?don?t be ugly?? Other?

Because the appearnace of the outline is not specified viewers are 
entitled to do anything they want with it. I don't think you are going 
to come up with anything which will reliably do any kind of formatting, 
that's not what this is intended for.


				Ken

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mark /Action ... /OUT pdfmark jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 02:59 -0700
  Re: mark /Action ... /OUT pdfmark ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2015-08-31 15:07 +0100
    Re: mark /Action ... /OUT pdfmark jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 15:59 -0700

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