General ⇒ Inserting a PDF cover to a PDF book

[jilani]

Hi All,
I have a PDF book (MyBook.pdf) written in LaTeX witch has the classical table of contents visible on the left side of PDF Reader. I have added the cover MyCover.pdf using this LaTeX code:

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\documentclass[a5paper,BCOR=8.25mm]{book}
\usepackage{bookman}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf{MyCover.pdf}
\includepdf[pages=-]{MyBook.pdf}
\end{document}

The final PDF file includes the cover and the book but the table of contents on the left side of PDF Reader is now invisible.
What I am missing?
Thank you.

[Johannes_B]

Welcome,

don't include the book-pdf. Include the cover in your book-latex-file.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Jilani,

welcome to the forum!

When you include PDF within a PDF, the original hyperlinks of the included PDF gets lost. This is not a problem with simple PDFs, such as a cover. However, it's an issue for a complete document, such as yours, with hyperlinks and bookmarks.

For printing, your approach of making a new PDF, which includes the other two PDF, would be ok. But not for an ebook.

That's why I agree with Johannes' advice: use \includepdf within your original book document to just include the cover at the beginning.

Stefan

[jilani]

Yes! It works now as expected. Thank you very much.