Printing PDF Bookmarks List
I work with PDF a lot, and it bothers me that I can see an outline view when I open the document, but I don’t seem to be able to grab just that view. My presentations are mostly PDF and the titles and section headings show up nicely. Today I figured out how to get an outline view, so I’m putting that information here while I remember how to do it!
I used a tool called pdftk which is excellent, I’ve used it before for doing various other PDF-related things. To grab metadata such as bookmarks, use the dump-data command, like this:
array_filter
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.. class:: description
Filters elements of an array using a callback function
.. class:: prototype
array array_filter(array $array , [callable $callback ] )
.. class:: params
**array** - The array to iterate over
.. class:: params
**callback** - The callback function to use
.. class:: return
Returns: Returns the filtered array.
The above line takes all the bookmarks from the PDF (this was a slide deck created using powerdot and LaTeX, the section and slide titles nest appropriately), and outputs a bunch of information about the document and the various PDFs. The grep command just gets the lines containing “BookmarkTitle”, then the whole thing gets written to a file. I cleaned that up and now I have the outline of my course, so I can add timings, notes for the exercises and so on.
Hi Lorna, where is the text file saved, I can’t find it, or it didn’t actually do it. Are there no requirements for indicating source and output directories?
The textfile is at the very end of the command after the “>” – so in this example, the file is “output.txt” in the directory you ran the command from. Hope that helps.