#438: WebSubmit: preserve bookmarks when stamping PDF files
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Reporter: jcaffaro | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: WebSubmit | Version:
Keywords: |
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The WebSubmit file stamper relies on the pdftk tool to process PDF files,
but unfortunately pdftk does not preserve bookmarks (eg. table of content
or "outlines"), even though it is able to dump them.
Ghostscript could be used instead to stamp files, as it can preserve such
information.
Ghostscript could fully replace pdftk in this case, or could be used
simply to enrich the resulting stamped file with the necessary
instructions to create the bookmarks (PDFMark?), provided that these
instructions can be extracted correctly from the original file.
Some additional untested information:
{{{
$ pdftk original_file.pdf dump_data
InfoKey: Creator
InfoValue: LaTeX with hyperref package
NumberOfPages: 88
BookmarkTitle: Introduction
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 9
BookmarkTitle: Context
BookmarkLevel: 2
BookmarkPageNumber: 9
BookmarkTitle: CERN
BookmarkLevel: 3
}}}
{{{
$ pdftk stamped_file.pdf update_info original_file.info output
new_stamped_file
(does not seem to add the necessary information unfortunately)
}}}
{{{
$ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o stamped_file.pdf
original_file.pdf stamp.pdf
(would apparently merge the two files and keep the bookmarks from both)
}}}
{{{
$ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o new_stamped_file.pdf \
-c "[/Page 1 /View [/XYZ null null null] /Title (Title 1) /OUT
pdfmark" \
-c "[/Page 2 /View [/XYZ null null null] /Title (Title 2) /OUT
pdfmark" \
-f stamped_file.pdf
(would apparently add the specified bookmarks instructions to the given
file. They should be extracted from the original file, and cleaned for
this syntax)
}}}
In any case one should be careful if bookmarks are linking to absolute
page numbers, as the number of pages can change when adding a cover page.
This would probably not be handled by Ghostscript.
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