bionic (1) pdfoutline.1.gz

NAME

       pdfoutline - 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>.

                                                   2017-12-20                                      pdfoutline(1)