On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 07:00 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 13:18 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 12:29 -0700, RA Brown wrote: > > > On Wed Sep 29 2010 11:22:07 GMT-0700 (PDT) Alan M. Evans wrote: > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > > > I've produced a small ebook-style PDF using OpenOffice Writer, which has > > > > worked out pretty well with one exception. The links in the > > > > (auto-generated) Table of Contents seem to be reversed. > > > > > > > > By "reversed," I do not mean that they appear visually in the document > > > > out of order. Everything looks fine. Top of the page has an entry to the > > > > first chapter, the entry on the bottom is to the last chapter. And the > > > > links themselves are fine. The link to the first chapter goes to the > > > > first chapter, etc. > > > > > > > > The problem is that when I view this PDF on my ebook reader, the last > > > > entry is selected first. Navigating "up" the list moves the selection > > > > down, and vice versa. It's all very unnatural. > > > > > > > > So it appears that, although the text appears on the PDF page in order, > > > > the links inside the PDF are somehow listed in reverse order. > > > > > > > > I suppose that it could be the reader device (Sony PRS-300) that's > > > > messing it up, but I'm not sure how I could tell that. > > > > > > > > Suggestions? > > > > > > > > -Alan > > > > > > What happens if you open the file in Reader or other PDF viewer program? > > > > > > Andy > > > > Same thing: <Tab> moves backward through the list of TOC entries, > > <Shift>+<Tab> moves forward. > > > > -Alan > > I hate to be a bother here, but I'm up against a publication deadline. > If I can't find another solution then I'm left with recreating a > multi-page TOC by hand. Ack. > > Can anybody even tell me if they can reproduce this issue? Just export > to PDF any document with an auto-generated TOC and see if the links are > in reverse Z-order when viewed in Adobe Reader. If not, then I'd love to > discover what the difference is between our systems. Otherwise, I would > call this a bug...
Thanks to users RABrown and NoOp for their very valuable help and information off list. The difference appears to be the selection of "Tagged PDF" in the export options. When I do that, the tab-order appears correct in Adobe Reader. Unfortunately, my e-reader still shows it wrong. So it apparently doesn't pay any attention to the tags. I guess I can live with that since it indicates that the device is now to blame, technically. Still a bummer, though. It would be nice if there was a way to tell OOo Writer to just put the internal links in the right order rather than relying on the tags to fix it up. I'm sure that the links are reversed simply because of an implementation detail in how Writer produces the TOC. Fat chance I'm going to get that changed any time soon. *sigh* Anyway, thanks for all the help! -Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
