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July 13, 2021
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Open Document Outline by Default in Browser

  • July 13, 2021
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Apologies if this is the wrong forum. I have a number of documents that are created in Word and exported to PDF, then hosted/viewed online. I have no trouble creating the document outline in Reader (online and offline) by using Word's heading styles, but I'm wondering how to force a PDF to show that outline by default (the default in Reader and most browsers seems to be that it's toggled off). I have found other PDFs online that have this function, so I know it's possible, but I can't seem to find documentation on how.

 

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    Bernd Alheit
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    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
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    July 13, 2021

    Does you mean the bookmarks?

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    scottt53464138
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    October 2, 2023

    No, I believe he/she was talking about how to prompt/have the browser(s) to autop-display the PDFs in 'Document Outline' mode, so that the document index / document navigation appears , ex: using the headings/ so that 'view/navigate mode' is shown by defaul ( instead of navigate by page thumbnails ) view.

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    Hans Peter37530875jkd1
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    October 18, 2024

    In Acrobat Pro and Reader it is possible to set the requested behavior as follows:

    Go to menu Document Properties > Initial View and set Navigation tab to "Bookmarks Panel and Page".

    Close the PDF document, confirm saving the change. From then onwards the bookmarks panel with the outline will open when you open the PDF document, also in other tools.

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