Questions tagged [hyperlinking]
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How to create clickable table of contents in a PDF?
I have many technical PDF ebooks where there are no chapters (no clickable table of contents or other means for quick navigation through a document) and therefore it's really painful to search for information without full-text search. How could I…
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How easy is it to add a table of contents to an epub book?
Some text editors (e.g. MS Word, or Atlassian Confluence Wiki editor) make it trivial to add a table of contents to a text that was properly formatted (e.g. has headings/chapter titles), by merely doing a single "insert table of contents" operation,…
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EPUB & Kindle File Glossary and Dictionary Selection
Copied from an identical Stack Overflow Question. (Didn't know there's an eBooks stack exchange now, woot!)
The Puzzle
I am working on an eBook file, or series of files, which should be compatible with the maximum range of eReaders on the market. …
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How can I create internal links with Sigil?
I would like to add some internal links to an ebook I have—namely, adding links from the Table of Contents to the beginning of each chapters, and links at the end of each chapter to the TOC.
If I had an HTML file I would had had no problem: a bunch…
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What symbols/text to use for index references?
An index in a printed book would look like this:
Concept A: 5, 17
Concept B: 25, 41, 83
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In an ebook the page numbers would be replaced by hyperlinks. The question is what text/symbols to use for the hyperlinks. One option I thought is to…
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Automatic creation of bookmarks from Table Of Content
I've got this big problem: I have a PDF book with, say, 4 chapters and a bunch of paragraphs in each chapters. At the begenning of the book there is a non-clickable index with chapters, paragraphs and page numbers.
I need to create a bookmark for…
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How do I preserve named text anchors in EPUB export from InDesign?
Overview: I'm trying to export an index for an ebook using Ole Kvern's scripting tools, linked to the paragraph level instead of page numbers. The index was created outside of Indesign, in Macrex indexing software, but was set up using the names of…
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How to use a macro or Find/Replace to make ToC link targets into links themselves pointing back to the ToC in Libreoffice?
I am exporting a very large document (1400+ pages) to ebook, and have already worked out the Table of Contents (ToC) as hyperlinks to all the chapters and sections, and the hyperlinks work fine after being exported to the target ebook format so that…
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How to make the entries of an existing table of contents clickable as link to the corresponding pages?
I have many eBooks as PDF from SpringerLink, which I use for research purposes. The eBooks have indeed a table of contents (with more than 50 entries sometimes), but unfortunately it is not clickable. The bookmarks in the PDF often do not cover the…
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Disable clicking links on Kindle books
I have a Kindle Paperwhite. Frequently when reading technical books (i.e. Docker for Rails Developers, I tap to go to the next page, but accidentally click a hyperlink in the content, which jumps me to a totally different page.
Usually I don't…
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Return links for Table of Contents list and in-book headings
I'm using Notepad++ to format my first novel in HTML before converting it to MOBI and/or ePUB.
I've done the code to make the items on my Table of Contents into live links and they all take me to the in-book headings, both in the default viewer…
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Kindle vs Hyperlinked Images
I should have tested my first epub better before publishing it to Kindle. I just now discovered that Kindle apparently doesn't support hyperlinked images, which seems bizarre to me.
Can anyone tell me if there's any kind of workaround for this? My…
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Tricky Conversion
I'm trying to best convert my book to an e-reader format, initially for Kindle, but I really want something that will display on any e-reader.
My book includes a mix of both English and Korean and many structured tables of data. It is something…
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Trying to repair unresolved hyperlinks in TOCs that crop up from time to time in conversions
I am converting some of my eBooks to EPUB and using Amazon's Preview app to confirm they're ok to send to them via the email to Kindle collection method.
Commonly my most reoccurring error has to do with unresolvable hyperlinks in the TOC. I'm not…
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Links between e-book files in the same folder
Which e-book file format (EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, HTML, DOC, MOBI, etc.) allows inserting a hyperlink to another e-book file in the same folder in an e-book reader?
I want to make an offline Wikipedia by storing every article in a…
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