Mapsoft TOCBuilder 1.5.1.0

TOCBuilder is a useful tool which allows you to create a Table of Contents for a document. Each entry within the Table of Contents can show the appropriate page for that entry, (as in a traditional Table of Contents for a printed document). In addition each entry within the Table of Contents is also linked to the actual heading within the document to which that entry relates. Selecting that link from within the Table of Contents will cause the focus in the document to jump to the relevant text. The Table of Contents is thus a powerful tool for navigating around your document.

The Table of Contents can be hierarchical, with sub-sections being indented below higher level sections, or it can be flattened with all entries appearing at the same level. Using options within the TOCBuilder you control the positioning and appearance of all the entries within a Table of Contents.
TOCBuilder uses bookmarks found within a document to generate the Table of Contents.

The bookmarks used by TOCBuilder to generate a Table of Contents can have been created directly within Acrobat, or they can have been created by using the Mapsoft BookMarker tool (see previous section for details). BookMarker creates list of bookmarks from the headings found within a document. Typically, most large documents are organised by chapter, section and sub-section, and BookMarker uses these different heading levels to create a hierarchical set of bookmarks.

If the original bookmarks within a document are hierarchical, then the resulting Table of Contents will be hierarchical too. In a hierarchy, subordinate items are indented to the right. Each different heading level within the Table of Contents will correspond to one of the hierarchical levels within the bookmark list. Thus, TOCBuilder will create a level 1 Table of Contents entry for each level 1 bookmark found within the document. It will create a level 2 Table of Contents entry for each level 2 bookmark and so on. Options you specify to the TOCBuilder tool control the appearance and positioning of each different heading level within the generated Table of Contents.

The number of levels to which the Table of Contents can be nested depends on the level to which the bookmarks have been nested. For example, if bookmarks are nested to four levels then you can set up to four different levels of entries in a Table of Contents.