InDesign CS5 - customizing the table of contents

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• Control the order of citation in the table of contents

  Hi, I created a table of contents that resembles the style of one paragraph for a newsletter. On the first page of the newsletter, there are two articles, and I would like to be able to control what article shows first. Is it possible to do this?

  

  If you look at the picture, I would 'Welcome' appears in front of "Managing your Performance."

  Thank you

  InDesign will index the table of contents, from left to right first, then from top to bottom. If you cannot use multiple paragraph styles to index the table of contents you can cheat InDesign to think that a text is still left one another.

  First, create a text box outside the page on the left side of the page, and bind this text box to the text box of welcome, then Indesign indexes this text box.

  This little thing of course only works if you don't not "entered sort in alphabetical order" enabled (Advanced settings) in the Table of contents dialog box.

• [CS5 Server/JSX] Generate the table of contents at the beginning of the document

  Hello

  The following script generates a table of contents:

  
    myTOCStyle = myDocument.tocStyles.itemByName("TOC");
    myMasterSpread = myDocument.masterSpreads.item("A-Master");
    myTocPage = myDocument.pages.add(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, myMasterSpread);
    myIndexFrame = myDocument.textFrames.lastItem();
    myBounds = myIndexFrame.geometricBounds;
    myX1 = myBounds[1];
    myY1 = myBounds[0];
    myDocument.createTOC(myTOCStyle, true, undefined, [myX1, myY1]);
  
  

  When I run this Script on the InDesign CS5 server, it generates a table of contents, but it is not placed on the page just added at the beginning. It is placed on the first page containing the content where the table of contents is generated from. Also the added page at the beginning does not contain the elements of the master page, it's just a page of blanco.

  When I run this Script on InDesign CS5 to office, the table of contents are placed on the first page added with this script. Also, does this page contain master page items!

  How is it possible to place the table of contents (with overflow text) before the first page containing the content. The page that contains the table of contents should contain elements of the master page.

  Sjoerd

  myTextFrame = myStory[0].textContainers[0];
  

  He lacked the monarticle after [0]

• A menu button using custom on the slide to open and close the table of contents of Captivate 7

  Hello

  I have a custom menu button. When the user clicks on I want to see the table of contents, (I see there is a State to display the table of contents), but when the user clicks on the same menu again button on this slide how to hide the table of contents. IE, go hide and show.

  Thank you

  Captivate 7.0.1 contains a rocking action that allows you to enable a Boolean variable (for example the system variable that displays or hides the table of contents), and shutdown.  Use this action.

• Customize the table of contents for epub book

  Hello

  I have a book in ID CS6 file, containing ten chapters, each in its own starting with style heading 1 to "Chapter 1", "2", "Chapter 3" etc. It also contains more documents to cover, notes copyright, acknowledgement of receipt, info editor etc. (not quite formatted).

  Well, when I export to epub and open it in Adobe Digital Editions a table of contents is generated from all the documents, the names of files.

  Is it possible to exclude the entries, I want to be there?

  In addition, I can control the text of each entry? for example, the "cr.indd" file, I want the Notes"copyright" text in TOC.

  Thank you

  Short answer: you can control the TOC navigation by creating a table of contents Style (layout > Style of Table of contents) and including a paragraph style that you want that pulls the titles that you want in the table of contents.

  Then call on this Style of table of contents in the general Panel of the EPUB export dialog box.

  Looks like you need to get some basic information on creating ePub files. Here are the two best sources I know:

  (1) the books of Elizabeth Castro:

  http://www.elizabethcastro.com/EPUB/

  (2) videos of Anne-Marie Concepcion on Lynda.com. She produced videos on creating EPUB from InDesign CS5, 5.5, and 6. www.Lynda.com. (if Bob Levine sees this, it will add a free link of the week for Lynda.com).

• Generate the table of contents with chapter markers?

  It has been a while since I had to install and create a table of contents for a long document of single file, but I'm sure that I created TOCs in this way in the past. Then, why the text in the Section markers will appear in the table of contents? It is even possible to generate a table of contents that contains text of article marker?

  I use InDesign CS5 in Windows. I have a file single document I'm trying to generate a table of contents for. I designed a 16-page manual in an inDesign file that includes a cover page, table of contents page and seven "chapters."

  I created a separate section for each 'chapter' and used Chapter markers in the top of the page master for chapter names. It's something I did in the past of syntactically long documents containing several chapters.

  I put the first page of each 'chapter' as a new Section on the Pages panel. In numbering and Section Options for each page, I checked the Section getting started, Automatic Page numbering, the Style of Page numbering: 1,2,3,4... and in Section marker: I put the name of 'chapter' in the text box.

  

  I've set up paragraph and character Styles and has used throughout my document. When I put in place the table of contents I created everything correctly, including a heading style that I used for all the sub lines in my file and my style of Section marker for chapter names.

  

  When I insert the table of contents, generate headers sub with their page numbers, but the titles of the chapters which are chapter markers do not generate. Am I missing something or is it still possible to enter the text of chapter markers in a table of contents? I'm sure that he's worked in the past. Can anyone offer a solution for this?

  Thank you

  Kat

  Looks like the markers section present only in the table of contents if they are on a document page. Try manually to the substitution of the frame.

• Possible to turn off the legacy of line break in the table of contents?

  Hello

  Say I got a long title stupidly, that I need to address (and subtitle is not an option in this case):

  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, adipiscing elit computer. Integer nec odio.

  Due to wide-ish the font size of the header in the document, I want to break this header in two lines.

  However my OCD uses a smaller font size, and so he could sit happily on a single line.

  The problem is that the inDesign TOC seems to be ineriting the soft breakdown and therefore the line break appears in the table of contents too.

  Is it possible to disable / prevent this?

  Thank you!

  Try to use nonbreaking spaces, or without breaks (spaces are less problematic) the part of the topic that you want to wrap instead of the line break is forced.

• Content filtering to display in the table of contents with Actions (possibly using ActionScript?)

  I have 7 Captivate and would like to know if it is possible to filter some slides of OCD.

  The point here is that they may not be static, but change the slides to show transparently based on the choice of the user.

  == Example ==

  You have a file containing below 3 slides captivate. (A, B, C)

  And each slide content is needed for the subject in []. (I, II, III)

  A [I, II AND III]

  B [II, III]

  C [I, III]

  Lets say the user wants to know about the topic-II.

  While the user should only see slides A and B.

  If the user wants to know on the subject-I, then only slides A and C are shown in the table of contents.

  == == End of example

  In my view, that's not possible with only using Captivate and research to achieve anyway. (for example. Load the captivate through Flash and control the captivate Flash with AS3 file).

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  You have no control of this type on the default TOC THAT included with Captivate. You can have this control, if you create a custom table of contents and use advanced/variables actions. Advanced actions are converted on the duration of AS3 (for SWF) or JS (for HTML5). Since you talk about Flash, I assume you want SWF-output. I know a lot about system variables supplied, there may be some hidden variables that you can solve with AS3 or (better IMO) with JS, but only system variables for the table of contents is to lock or hide/show it (if in overlay).

• How can I tell what appears in the Table of contents

  I'm under InDesign CC 20141 Release on a Windows 7 PC.

  In my paper, I define a character style called "product header. I wish that all the elements with this style of character "product header" to appear in my Table of contents.

  However, the Table of contents group wants to determine which paragraph styles to include.

  How can I "connect" my style of character to appear in the Table of contents.

  Thank you very much!

  Steve

  OK - figured out - I have to use paragraph styles. I swear that this was not the case in a previous version of InDesign.

• All my attempts so far to generate the table of contents for Kindle (.mobi) failed. Can anyone help?

  I used InDesign CC to create an epub file and the TOC and the Navigation bar appear perfectly in Adobe Digital Editions (version 3.0). Then I saved the file to the IDML format open InDesign CS6 and use the Kindle Plugin to create a mobi file. I use the same style of table materials used to create the epub file, but although Kindlegen validates the file, the table of contents is unable to generate. I've been on several discussion forums and many people express problems by having their TOC displayed in Kindle Previewer. Can anyone help?

  Hello

  Kindle requires a separate html file for OCD and even must be referenced in the guide in content.opf element. In your InDesign CC document, generate the table of contents on a page and make sure the option 'Make the anchor text to the source paragraph' is checked.

  Now export the EPUB 3 file. Open EPUB in Sigil (it's a free EPUB editor of Google). Menu Goto tools-> Table of contents-> generate HTML Table of contents. This creates a new xhtml file and automatically adds the element of guidance in content.opf like this:

  Save EPUB and open directly into Kindle Previewer. Table of contents option must be turned on now and should work.

  Please try and let me know if it works.

  Kind regards

  POOJA

  InDesign engineering

• Why the names of my chapters are not displayed in the table of contents?

  Hello. I use Indesign & DPS simple editing to make an application. In Indesign, I created several different documents that I used to make items that I put together in a Folio.  I saw it using the tool preview Adobe & on the iPad using Adobe Content Viewer. When I select the button table of contents I see thumbnail screenshots of the first page of each chapter, but no text chapter name.  For each of the documents that I used to make items that I named them after the chapter they represent, which is what I thought each chapter name defined.

  The strange thing is that before I did a couple of test folios and they do not have the name of chapter text. So what can I do to display the chapter name in the table of contents?

  Also, is there a way to change change the thumbnail used by the table of contents?

  Thank you

  The answer to both questions is in the Article Properties dialog box. Select the item in the Folio Builder Panel and choose Properties from the context menu. Specify the name of the chapter of "Title" - which is probably empty now. (There is a difference between an article name and a title of the article. The name is used for internal purposes, such as the binding, and the title appears in the application).

  At the bottom of this dialog box, you see a preview of the Table of contents. Click the folder icon and specify a PNG of 70 x 70 that you design.

• Use the table of contents theme in several projects

  I spent the time by changing the color of items for my Table of contents and managed to save it as a custom TOC theme. However, this theme does not appear as a selection in other projects. Because I don't see a way to export the theme to the table of contents How do you use it other projects? I used the theme > save as option, but when I import the theme in a new project the theme of the table of contents does not appeal to.

  When you go to the project - Table of contents - skin - default default theme says. Click on the arrow and you should see your custom theme renamed to TOC inside - it is not alpahbetically. I just did this and kind of panic when I don't see my modified Pearls appear, but he was there at the bottom of the list! I hope this helps.

• How hide the table of contents in the body of an e-book?

  Hey people, I'm kind of a weird request. Do not forget that everything I know about InDesign, I taught myself for a month, so I can miss major somethng.

  As an intern, I am creating ebooks and I have to make sure that those I create the same look as the ebooks previously created for my employer (better yet, I had to do it from scratch!). In their previous ebooks (EPUB file format) the table of contents posted by the ereader clearly indicates a specific style of OCD was used to create (he titles and subtitles, so it is not just the default style that draws from the file names), BUT there is NO table of contents anywhere in the body of the ebook itself. There is also no blank page where a table of contents can be hidden with a hidden layer.

  I created a table of contents to match style to them, but I can't it appears in the drop-down menu Styles TOC when I go to export EPUB book file unless the document of the table of contents is also included in the book file, and as I said, I can't get the table of contents in the body of the ebook itself just in the menu that is displayed by an ereader.

  Any advice?

  Did you use dialogue style of content Table to create a new style of table of contents? If so, then the new table of contents style must appear in the drop-down list TOC Style selected in the dialog box in the Navigation options to export EPUB.

  Kind regards

  POOJA

• How can I include the header of the table of contents in the table of contents?

  I prepare a table of contents in InDesign CS3 (Macintosh OSX 10.5.8)

  I added all the paragraph styles to the list of paragraph styles, I have want to appear in my Table of contents.

  However, I would also like the table of contents itself appear in the table of contents:

  In the case of the table of contents is placed on page 3, he want it looks like this

  Table of contents:

  Title page... page 1

  Thanks... page 2

  Table of contents... .page 3

  Table of figure... page 6

  Chapter 1... page 10

  and so on...

  I have included the paragraph style in the list of paragraph styles, I want to have in my table of contents. But this does not have an entry in my table of contents that is named "table of contents".

  I would be grateful for any advice.

  Thanks in advance

  To do this add a nonprinting frame to Page 3 and add the words Table of contents using one of your styles that is picked up.

• How can I customize the Table of contents develop (> >) button?

  I have a client who wants to change the color of the table of contents, expand (> >) button which is a light gray by default. I tried to change all the options in the editor of skin under the Table of contents, playback control and borders, and nothing worked. Am I missing something obvious, or is there no way to customize this button?

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello

  You will not be able to change the color of the expand button, but you can add your own custom images.

  (1) launch the Adobe Captivate 5.5 project

  2) click on the project-> Table of contents

  3) click on the set button

  (4) under TOC settings, you have the icon sections expand and collapse icon

  5) click on 'file' button and find your photo

  Screenshot:

  

  That's what your output will look like:

  

  Hope this helps!

  Thank you

  Vikram