1pdfoutline(1) General Commands Manual pdfoutline(1)
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6 pdfoutline - add outlines (aka bookmarks) to PDF files
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10 pdfoutline input.pdf outlines.txt output.pdf
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13 pdfoutline reads input file given as first argument, adds outlines from
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17 File with outlines information should consist of lines in the following
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19 <level> <page> Outline text
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21 <level> and <page> should be integers. Each field should be separated
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25 Outlines file can contain comments that start with # in first column.
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33 Here is example of outlines data file:
34 0 1 Document title
35 1 1 Chapter 1
36 2 1 Chapter 1.1
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40 Using this file will result in outlines like the following:
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48 pdfoutline author is Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@debian.org>
49 pdfoutline is part of fntsample and can be downoaded from
50 <https://github.com/eugmes/fntsample>.
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54 2019-11-01 pdfoutline(1)