Highlight table of contents entries hovered by mouse

[Angelo_P81]

Hello,
I am searching fora a way to do this kind of things:
effect or animation to highlight rows of the table of contents when hovering the mouse over;

I have alredy searched a lot in the forum but I didn't find it.

What i want is something like the table of contents of this pdf:
https://sisma2016.gov.it/wp-content/upl ... signed.pdf

Thanks.

[erbsenzahl]

effect or animation to highlight rows of the table of contents when hovering the mouse over

Ciao,
I used some PDF viewers (Acrobat, PDFXchange, Foxit, MasterPDF, Xreader) and did not see any highlighting (TOC) in your linked PDF file.
I do not think that LibreOffice can manage that.
Probably it is an effect which is connected to some JavaScript code snippets. For that check Scribus - it can do e.g. counting in PDF forms by JavaScript. Maybe it is possible to produce and export the mouse hovering effect.

The original PDF version of the linked document was generated by "iLovePDF" - check this for some features as well.

[JeJe]

Table of contents paragraphs are just normal text paragraphs and there is nothing inbuilt for something happening on mouse over like a color change in the text.

You could construct something using form controls and macros that looks like a TOC and has that effect - but for a minor cosmetic effect it would be an enormous amount of fiddly work.

[floris v]

Opening the document in Firefox (Ubuntu Linux) does hyperlink highlighting at mouseovers. The default document viewer in Ubuntu Linux, on the other hand, opens pop-ups with a preview of a few lines above and below the target of the link and doesn't highlight the hyperlink at all. So, the same PDF may be displayed differently by different viewers. So maybe you go to a lot of trouble to get that effect in the PDF on your system, then others may see something different. I agree with JeJe, it's much trouble for a small effect.

[JeJe]

If the goal is a pdf then form controls with OO macros wont work for that anyway.

As erbsenzahl suggests, perhaps it needs Acrobat JavaScript and a different pdf creator:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/412 ... r-from-pdf

[Angelo_P81]

Ok, my goal is to make that who read the pdf can understand that the summary (index or table of contents) is interactive; otherwise he dn't find the way to navigate inside the document.

I remember that, a long time ago, in Ms Frontpage '97 / 2003, there was a function, in text style for html links, that made this kind of things I've asked before (I've linked table of contents to hyperlink text style, so I've tought that, in some way, it could be possible to do it).

However, thanks a lot for everybody for your tips. I appreciate it.

[Bill]

Ok, my goal is to make that who read the pdf can understand that the summary (index or table of contents) is interactive; otherwise he dn't find the way to navigate inside the document.

How is the user supposed to know that highlighting of the TOC entry text means it is interactive? I would not know because that behavior is not familiar to me. However, I am familiar with the mouse pointer changing from an arrow cursor to a hand cursor when hovering over an interactive TOC entry. It's that change in the mouse pointer that should tell users the TOC entry is interactive.

[Hagar Delest]

+1 with Bill.
Note that if you want to ease the navigation experience, make sure that your headings are exported with bookmarks in the PDF (should be the default if you have used the Tools > Chapter numbering features with heading styles). With that, the headings will be displayed in the PDF panel for bookmarks.

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[Angelo_P81]

Ok, my goal is to make that who read the pdf can understand that the summary (index or table of contents) is interactive; otherwise he dn't find the way to navigate inside the document.

How is the user supposed to know that highlighting of the TOC entry text means it is interactive? I would not know because that behavior is not familiar to me. However, I am familiar with the mouse pointer changing from an arrow cursor to a hand cursor when hovering over an interactive TOC entry. It's that change in the mouse pointer that should tell users the TOC entry is interactive.

Yes... but... I like it so much that kind of effects / animations ... They seems to be elegant and stylish.

[Angelo_P81]

Hello Bill, I've already changed the style of heading and I've linked it also with a custom text style: it make possible to add some simple effetcts like blinking text but... I remember that, a long time ago, in Ms Frontpage '97 / 2003, there was a function, in text style for html links, that made this kind of things I've asked before (higlighting text effect/animation when moving cursor over it) so I supposed that it colud be possible now (I've linked table of contents to hyperlink text style, so I've tought that, in some way, it could be possible to do it).

[JeJe]

Ms Frontpage is/was an HTML editor not a word processor.

The link I posted gave some pointers how to do it - but you can't do it with OO.