Inported/Exported PDF Does not keep index/TOC

[ZennMystic]

Hello,

New to LibreOffice here and Linux mint.

I have a PDF It had a toc/index and some link to external web sites. I had been looking for a way to edit the PDF as one of the links in it is dead. On googling LibreOffice was what kept coming up. Great I thought I’ll open up my PDF remove the dead link and re-save the new PDF.

Nope… I can take out the dead link OK but there is not longer an ideax/toc. Well there is… Every page… instead of like in the original PDF which lists chapters and sub chapters.

All I want is to remove a dead link from the PDF and leave everything else the same and re-save. How do I do this Can anyone help or recommend something?

Thankyou for your time.

[ajlittoz]

Draw will allow only limited editing. Draw sees everything in a PDF as a set of graphical shapes (even text). Therefore, there is no notion of headings, chapters or even paragraphs. Consequently, you can remove “graphical objects” but you can’t recreate text document structure.

[ZennMystic]

I was beginning to think this.

Can anyone recommend something on Linux that would allow me to make a simple change to the PDF?

[EarnestAl]

Can you open the PDF in Calibre, save as ODT edit the odt (rebuild TOC too) and export as pdf? Keep the odt for publishing later changes.