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Inspect PDF bookmarks before publishing a report

A long report can use an outline tree to help readers navigate. Inspecting that structure helps detect missing or misleading destinations before handoff.

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Use the final PDF after page assembly. An outline checked before pages were inserted or removed may not describe the delivered sequence.

A focused terminal workflow

jetformat pdf outlines book.pdf

Outlines are the navigation bookmarks stored in the PDF, not an inferred list of headings from the page text.

Acceptance checks

Follow representative entries in a PDF viewer and compare their labels with the page content. An outline inventory alone does not prove each destination is useful.

Compare bookmark labels with the document sections and use a viewer to check their destinations.

Before repeating the operation

These examples use local sample filenames. Substitute your own paths and check jetformat pdf outlines --help against the installed version before running the task. Put paths containing spaces inside quotes.

This is a free utility or read operation. It does not need a paid conversion to inspect the result.

Run jetformat pdf outlines --help to compare options with your installed version.

See the pdf command reference for the surrounding workflow.

Keep the input revision with the result so a later reviewer can reproduce the decision. For a write operation, choose a new output path first; use overwrite flags only when replacing a previously reviewed result is intentional.

See the pdf outlines options and examples for the command reference. Browse related pdf commands when the next step requires a different operation.

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