[XXE] bookmap vs ditamap - .pdf output question

[Grundtvig Nielsen Niels]

Question from anxious end-user, who seems to want the best of both worlds: is it possible to generate .pdf output from a .bookmap that includes the familiar .pdf table of contents in the bookmarks pane?

Observation from me: .pdf outline = yes seems to be without effect when the starting point is a .bookmap (I don't altogether understand the note Supported by the 'XEP' , 'FOP' and 'AHF' XSL-FO processors. Not relevant, and thus ignored by 'XFC'

I've tried explaining to the end-user that a .bookmap is intended to help produce a paper-style, printable .pdf - but end-user is already familiar with the .pdfs I generate from FrameMaker, which do (can) give both the 'full-page' ToC and the .pdf outline.

Is there some handy option I've missed?


Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
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Post by Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Question from anxious end-user, who seems to want the best of both
worlds: is it possible to generate .pdf output from a .bookmap that
includes the familiar .pdf table of contents in the bookmarks pane?

Yes.

Post by Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Observation from me: /.pdf outline = yes/ seems to be without effect

It's pdf-outline=yes. See
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/xsltParams.html#xsltParams__pdf-outline

I cannot reproduce this problem. The following PDF:

http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/manual-fop.pdf

has been generated as follows:

---
ditac -filter svg.ditaval -r media \
-p title-color "rgb(57,73,134)" \
-p pdf-outline yes \
-p extended-toc both \
-p number all -p use-note-icon yes \
-p mark-important-steps no \
-p two-sided no \
-p page-inner-margin 1in \
-p page-outer-margin 1in \
-p justified yes \
-p hyphenate yes \
../../doc/manual/manual-fop.pdf manual.ditamap
---

(Same options with XXE as XXE embeds XMLmind DITA Converter)

Post by Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
when the starting point is a .bookmap (I don’t altogether understand the
note /Supported by the 'XEP' , 'FOP' and 'AHF' XSL-FO processors. Not
relevant, and thus ignored by 'XFC'/
I’ve tried explaining to the end-user that a .bookmap is intended to
help produce a paper-style, printable .pdf

I personally always use bookmaps for all my DITA documents, no matter
the output format.

Post by Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
– but end-user is already
familiar with the .pdfs I generate from FrameMaker, which do (can) give
both the ‘full-page’ ToC and the .pdf outline.

You'll have both with with pdf-outline=yes.

Post by Grundtvig Nielsen Niels
Is there some handy option I’ve missed?

You probably made a little mistake when invoking XMLmind DITA Converter.

[Grundtvig Nielsen Niels]

Post by Hussein Shafie
You probably made a little mistake when invoking XMLmind DITA Converter.

Thanks for including your parameters in the reply ... I can now confirm (with some embarrassment) it was just user-error - I'd added pdf_outline instead of pdf-outline

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