PDF bookmarks from Epic

[LynnHales]

Hey folks, I'm working at getting my MIL-HDBK put to bed and my boss asked me to get the bookmarks (the left frame that is a TOC) working.

I read up on this a bit in the 'help center' and the implication I get is that I need to have the publishing engine (not the print app) in order to do this.

I am using a FOSI to produce my output with Epic 5.4 (still haven't loaded 6.0 on the machine with the print license).

So any input on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Lynn

[ptc-953926]

Hi Lynn,

It doesn't look like you got any responses. Not sure I can help, but we've been generating custom PDF bookmarks for a number of years. We started with generating a PostScript file with print composer. We then had an OmniMark script massage the PS file to add/revise the toc and PDF properties to our liking. When we moved to PE (still on 5.3) and direct-to-PDF, we started using the PDFINFO markup that is added to a transformed version of the writer XML. With AE 5.4 and a print composer license, you can do direct-to-PDF, so I don't think you need PE.

Hope this helps.

Dave Hintz
Siemens

[naglists]

I was hoping someone with better memory than me would respond.

I do think there were changes in how / whether PDF bookmarks were supported.
I want to say there was one upgrade that removed the automatic, DCF div
specified bookmark generation. And another that did create a functionality
differences between PE and PDF Direct, PE and Distiller, and Editor and
anything.

But I can't reliably recall the versions or the details of the differences
...

[ClayHelberg]

Hi Lynn--

Did you have a look at Help 6205? There is some detail there about how to embed your own PDF bookmark code using FOSI.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the composition engines in Print Composer and PE are pretty much the same. What you pay for with PE is all the server stuff that goes on top of it to manage requests, subprocess pools, etc. I haven't tested it but I think what's described in that help topic should work with PC as well as PE.

The method described in that help topic does assume you are using direct-to-PDF, but I don't remember if that's an option for PC. If not, and you are publishing using Distiller, you would probably need to do something different, like embed PDFMark commands in your PostScript output for Distiller to pick up. We used to do that at SPSS; our stylesheet would produce a dynamically-generated EPS file containing the PDFMark code for the bookmarks, and insert a reference to the EPS "graphic" in the document stream.

--Clay

Clay Helberg
Senior Consultant
TerraXML

[LynnHales]

Clay,

I need to double check what I am using in the way of Acrobat. Pro 9 I think, but shoot I don't recall.

I saw the 'direct' in the help topic and I don't see it in the 'compose' or 'print' options, that is what drove my question. Hoping that 'direct-to-PDF' is not a PE only function.

Thanks again. I'll reread the help and then dig into the compose/print functions and see what I can do.

If it doesn't work, I'll do like Arnie and "be back".

Lynn
---- Clay Helberg <chelberg@terraxml.com> wrote:
> Hi Lynn--
>
> Did you have a look at Help 6205? There is some detail there about how to embed your own PDF bookmark code using FOSI.
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but I think the composition engines in Print Composer and PE are pretty much the same. What you pay for with PE is all the server stuff that goes on top of it to manage requests, subprocess pools, etc. I haven't tested it but I think what's described in that help topic should work with PC as well as PE.
>
> The method described in that help topic does assume you are using direct-to-PDF, but I don't remember if that's an option for PC. If not, and you are publishing using Distiller, you would probably need to do something different, like embed PDFMark commands in your PostScript output for Distiller to pick up. We used to do that at SPSS; our stylesheet would produce a dynamically-generated EPS file containing the PDFMark code for the bookmarks, and insert a reference to the EPS "graphic" in the document stream.
>
> --Clay
>
> Clay Helberg
> Senior Consultant
> TerraXML
>