Description:

pdfoutline 0.0.0

pdfoutline
A command line tool for adding an outline (a bookmark, or table of contents) to pdf files.
Prerequisites
Make sure you have ghostscript installed.
# Mac
brew install ghostscript

# Debian, Ubuntu
sudo apt install ghostscript

ghostscript for windows can be installed from the official website
Usage
$ pip install pdfoutline
...

$ pdfoutline sample.pdf sample.toc sample-out.pdf
|██████████████████████----------------------------| 118/263

optionally, the ghost script executable can be specified as well
pdfoutline sample.pdf sample.toc sample-out.pdf --gs_path 'C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.55.0\bin\gswin64.exe'

Demo

Sample output:

Sample Table of contents file: sample.toc
# this is a comment
First Chapter 1
first section 1
first subsection 1
second section 4
third section 5

# a command to fix a gap between pdf pages and content pages
+10

Second Chapter 10
some entry 10
some entry 11

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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