Retaining bookmarks when pages are removed

[stevechoy]

Hi,

Currently bookmarks disappear after using remove_pages() . I've tried to look into alternatives like the xmpdf package to extract bookmarks, but the default method from xmpdf::get_bookmarks() did not work well - the pages numbers are not extracted. I see from xmpdf that there is a pdftk wrapper that can be used which could retain page numbers, i.e. xmpdf::get_bookmarks_pdftk(), however my system failed with the following message:

Sys.setenv(PDFTK_PATH = "/path/to/pdftk")’ if installed but not detected on PATH

Does staplr install a local copy of pdftk in the system which I can define in the PDFTK_PATH as above? If not, are there plans for better bookmark support?

[oganm]

I did not look into bookmarks and how they interact with anything else so far. Will try to take a peek at an opportune time.

staplr uses it's own copy of pdftk which xmpdf wouldn't know about, you might have an easier time following the pdftk-java installation instructions for your operating system. If your system is windows, I am unsure how to install pdftk-java in a way that xmpdf will like right now without altering xmpdf package (i believe it will involve making a shell script to wrap the jar. xmpdf uses system2 which makes it annoying to use the jar file directly). you may have better luck with the old pdftk. otherwise i believe you will need a bash script