Editing Outlines

In this section, we introduce how to create outlines for the destination file. You can first import outline from the existing PDF file and then base on that structure to perfect it to fit your current destination file. Or just manually insert entries one by one, according to your current file, to build the outline. And then, you can modify the entries' name and link them with their associated destination pages or a particular title in a page. To follow, you can preview the destination file by using the built outline and do remodification, and remove the disengaged entry to finish your work.

Importing Outlines From PDF Document

PDFPO provides a very flexible way for you to input outlines. You can import preexisting outlines for the imported pages from the source PDF file, or another PDF file on your driver.

1. Select a entry, a node entry or the head Outline under where you want to position the imported outline.
2. Click Import button on the Outlines pane, or right click your mouse to select Import PDF Outlines on the drop-down menu, or select Outlines > Import PDF Outlines from the menu bar.
3. On the pop-up outlines import dialog box, select the source file. If you select to import outlines from the existing PDF document list, just double click a file of which its outline will immediately be displayed in the left side box. If you select to import outlines from another PDF document, click Browse to Open the intended PDF file, and at once its outline will be displayed in the left side box.
4. On the left side box, check the check box to select your desired outline, or use the buttons "Select All, Select Inverse, Deselect All " on the bottom to help you do a quick select.
5. Click Import button after done.
6. The imported outline is located in the place you select in Step one.

Note: If you want imported outline to locate under a node entry, you must select this node entry and do the import task. If you want the imported outline to stay as entirely new node entries, you select the head Outline, and then perform the import task.

See Also

• The Outlines Import Box

Inserting Entries

Many times you may want to insert entries while you are editing outlines. You can choose to insert a sub-entry or a coordinate entry.

To Insert a sub-entry, do one of the followings:

• Point to an entry where you want to insert a child entry, and then on the menu bar, click Outlines > Insert Under.
• Point to an entry where you want to insert a child entry, and then right click on your mouse and choose Insert Under on the drop-down menu.

To insert a coordinate entry, do one of the followings:

• Point to an entry where you want to insert a coequal entry before or after, and then on the menu bar, click Outlines > Insert Before or Outline > Insert After.
• Point to an entry where you want to insert a coequal entry before or after, and then right click your mouse and choose Insert Before or Insert After on the drop-down menu.

Renaming Entries

Many times you may want to change the outline's name while you are editing outlines. To rename do one of the followings:

• Point to an entry which you want to rename, and then on the Menu bar, click Outlines > Rename and input a new name.
• Point to an entry which you want to rename, and then click on the Rename button and input a new name.
• Point to an entry which you want to rename, and then right click your mouse, choose Rename on the drop-down menu and input a new name.

Deleting Entries

Many times there are idle entries you may want to remove while editing the outlines. You can remove a sub-entry , node entries, or all entries (whole outline) at a time.

To delete a sub-entry do one of the followings:

• Point to an child entry that you want to remove, and then on the Menu bar click Outlines > Remove.
• Point to an child entry that you want to remove, and then right click your mouse and choose Remove on the drop-down menu.
• Point to an child entry that you want to remove, and then click on the Remove button.

To delete node entries do one of the followings:

• Point to a parent entry that you want to remove, and then on the Menu bar click Outlines > Remove.
• Point to an parent entry that you want to remove, and then right click your mouse and choose Remove on the drop-down menu.
• Point to an parent entry that you want to remove, and then click on the Remove button.

Note: When you are deleting a parent entry, all its child entries are deleted too.

To delete Whole Outline do one of the followings:

• Point to the head Outline, and then on the Menu bar click Outlines > Remove.
• Point to the head Outline, and then right click you mouse and choose Remove All on the drop-down menu.
• Pont to the head Outline, and then click on the Remove button.

Previewing Outlines

To preview outlines, you can just click the plus sign to expand the outline or the subtraction sing to fold them. Or more simply, just use the menu items Expand and Expand All to accomplish task.

To preview outlines do one of the following:

• Point to the head Outline or a parent entry, and then on the menu bar, click Outlines > Expand or Outlines > Expand All.
• Point to the head Outline or a parent entry, and then right click your mouse and choose Expand or Expand All.

Note: "Expand" will only display the first parent entries, and "Expand All" will display the whole outline including all children.

Attaching Entries to Pages

You can attach a disengaged or reattach an engaged entry to a currently displaying page or other destination pages. You can also position an entry to a particular place in a page so that you can go directly to this place by clicking this entry later when you view it in PDF reader.

To Attach to a currently displaying page, do one of the following:

• Display the page to which you want to attach entry on the Preview area, and then right click on an engaged or disengaged entry, and choose Point to This Page on the drop-down menu.
• If you are to attach a vacant entry to the currently displaying page, you can use Position to make it. Do like this: click the vacant entry and then drag the Position to the current page.
• If you know the currently displaying page number in the destination document, you can also do like this: select the entry which you want to attach to page, and then in the Destination Page# box input this page number. (Actually you can get the currently displaying page number simply by looking at the item "Page#" in the status bar)

To attach to other destination pages

This task can be accomplished by means of the Destination Page# box. Here is how:

• Select an entry in the Outlines pane, and then in the Destination Page# box, input a page number you hope this entry to point to.

Notes:

• The page number you input must not exceed the total page number in the destination document, or it will be treated as invalid number.
• You can observer the page number in the status bar of the bottom of the PDFPO window.

To position an entry to a particular place in a page

This task is useful when there are multiple crosstitles in a page, you can position a group of contiguous entries to those crosstitles so that later you can view them directly and easily in a PDF viewer.

Do the following:

• Select an entry in the Outlines pane, display the page to which you want to position this entry on the Preview area, and then drag Position to anywhere you want in this page.

Note: You will not be able to see the result in PDFPO after finish this above performance until you view it in a PDF viewer.

Releasing Destinations

To release destinations is to delete pages that are included in the entries. Releasing a entry's destination will not remove this entry, only make it idle. You can release a sub-entry's destinations, node entries' or all entries' (whole outline's) destinations.

To release a sub-entry's destination, do one of the following:

• Point to an entry of which its page you want to release, and then on the Menu bar click Outlines > Remove Destination.
• Point to an entry of which its page you want to release, and then right click your mouse and choose Remove Destination on the drop-down menu.

To release node entries' destinations, do the following:

• Point to a parent entry of which its pages including its child entries you want to release, and then right click your mouse and choose Remove Destinations Tree on the drop-down menu.

To release all entries' destinations, do the following:

• Point to the head Outline, and right click your mouse and then choose Remove Designations Tree on the drop-down menu.

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