If the entries in an index table are not hyper-linked to their
target pages, you can let PDF Nomad 2 Pro attempt to quickly link each
page reference through the Tools → Outline and Link Automation
→ Link Index Table Entries To Target Pages
menu item.
Enter the numbers of the first and last pages of the Index Table.
Select a representative page in the preview area and then drag on the page to select the area that contains the table, excluding any headers or footers.
Click Detect Columns and Offset
to have PDF Nomad 2
automatically detect columns and the offset between even and odd
pages. If the results are not correct you can re-select the overall
area, adjust the Inter Column Gap
setting and try again. The
Inter Column Gap
setting hints to PDF Nomad 2 the minimum
distance between two columns. Dragging the slider to the left
decreases the minimum distance, dragging it to the right increases the
minimum distance.
The Even Pages Offset
field allows manual adjustment of the
offset (the distance of the text from the left margin) between even
and odd pages.
The Skip Regular Expression
field allows entry of plain
text or a regular expression, which will be ignored if it occurs at
the end of an entry, this is necessary for entries like: Circle
Tool 24, 34-35. See also: Tools.
Where there is additional text
after the page references. For such circumstances you would enter a
regular expression like: \. See also:.*
, which would find each
occurrence of text starting with a period, followed by a space and the
formulation See also:
plus arbitrary text following it, and
ignore it while analysing the line.
Link Indexes Only
controls whether the whole entry is
linked, or only the page indexes themselves.
Locate Targets
tells PDF Nomad 2 to look for the first
occurrence of the relevant text in the entry on the target page and to
link directly to that section of the page. If you switch this option
off PDF Nomad 2 will always create the links to the page itself,
rather than to a specific location on the page. Index table entries do
not generally lend themselves very well for this option to achieve
good results across the board, but, depending on the situation, it may
still be helpful.
