[xep-support] Re: Contents pane entries opened/closed by default

The XEP User's Guide explains this change of behavior here:

http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#Bookmarks

So setting the collapse-subtree property is required now. In DocBook XSL
that would be done by customizing the bookmark templates in fo/xep.xsl.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 4/4/2019 5:55 AM, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are using XEP as part of our toolchain to convert docbook content into PDF
> files. We were using XEP 3.8.4 before and recently switched to 4.28. While
> 4.28 is much better, especially when embedding svg files, there is one point
> where 3.8.4 was better:
>
> The PDFs created with 3.8.4 had all the subsection entries in the Contents-
> pane of the pdf closed by default. So you just saw the main parts of the
> document there. Opening the parts showed the capters, then you could open the
> sections and so on. See attached file xep-3.8.4.png for an example.
>
> This gave the reader a very good overview over the structure of the document.
>
> In 4.28 all available entries in the Contents pane of the PDF are opened by
> default. So in a bigger document, the reader sees just the first few chapters
> in the Contents-pane. This does not give a good overview of the structure of
> the document. See attached file xep-4.28.png for the same document as before,
> but rendered with XEP 4.28.
>
> I compared both PDFs in several different PDF viewers and all showed an
> identical behavior regarding the Contents pane.
>
> Is there any option, processing instruction or similar to let XEP 4.28 create
> Contents-panes with closed subsections?
>
> I want to get back the same behavior in this regard as in 3.8.4.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gerd
>
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