How do you create a PDF with sidebar text?

Question

I want to create a PDF from Python.

I noticed that some pdfs have text in the sidebar that allows you to see the context in which search terms appear.

eg. dictionary search

Sidebar view:

Page 10 Assigning a value to an existing dictionary key simply replaces the old value with the new one.

How it's done?

Is there a way to convert existing PDFs to render this sidebar text?

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BryanWheelock Aug 29. '09 at 13:59

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3 answers

Pinochle · Answer 1 · 2009-09-10T14:00:40+0000

If you create Reportlab pdf files then the library has bookmarks to bookmark as you want. Checkout bookmarkPage

on page 54 of the documentation.

easel · Answer 2 · 2009-08-30T01:07:33+0000

I believe you mean bookmarks. first hit Google indicates that you can put them manually using Acrobat Pro.

DocBook XSL when used with Apache FOP

Wim verhavert · Answer 3 · 2009-09-15T16:14:50+0000

PyQt gui toolkit supports PDF creation. See for example: Printing Rich Text with Qt