Edit Table of Contents in Preview?

You could use a combination of tools to remove the old ToC, and attach a new one:

answered Aug 29, 2015 at 22:26 459 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges

Preview does not support this.

You need more advanced PDF editing software, like Adobe Acrobat Pro or PDF Outliner.

answered Aug 29, 2015 at 22:00 caorongjin caorongjin 443 3 3 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges

Preview can't modify or add TOC, but I find an alternative way to do this is use bookmark.

Just navigate to the page and press CMD+D, or choose "Tools/Add Bookmark" menu item, the page number and some text from the begin of the page will show on the bookmark view.

I use this way to add link to the PDF file without TOC, and it works.

answered Mar 2, 2016 at 14:19 liwp_Stephen liwp_Stephen 271 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges

It should be pointed out that Preview's Bookmarks are not part of the PDF specification, and do not appear in other PDF readers.

Commented Jan 21, 2019 at 9:08

Well, as has stated by others, preview cannot edit toc.

I tried PDF SAM. To be honest, I think it's a bit user-unfriendly.

Give it a try on Foxit Reader, free and elegant as on Windows platform, as shown below.

Foxit Reader TOC Edit Sample

answered Jun 16, 2016 at 18:01 31 2 2 bronze badges

Another work-around is to add an outline to the pdf using the iPhone version of the (free) Documents app (Readdle). The table of contents can then be seen in the Preview app (and probably any other pdf viewer).

An advantage to this method is that outline entries may be placed into submenus. A disadvantage is that you need to go to each point in the document one time and enter the needed text on a phone. But since I only want a dozen or so outline items I find this doesn't take much time, especially since voice dictation works so well.

answered Mar 28, 2023 at 6:40 908 3 3 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges

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