Also in this case package bookmark can help. The bookmark "Frontmatter" can be added
at part level and at \mainmatter the bookmark hierarchy is restarted using option
startatroot.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\pdfbookmark[-1]{Frontmatter}{frontmatter}
\chapter*{Preface}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface}
\lipsum[1]
\chapter*{Acknowledgements}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgements}
Thanks to everyone for everything.
\cleardoublepage
\pdfbookmark[0]{Contents}{toc}
\tableofcontents
\bookmarksetup{startatroot}
\mainmatter
\chapter{Lipsum 2}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
An alternative solution would be the redefinition of \toclevel@chapter to 1 and
resetting after the frontmatter.
1. Appendix bookmark
Package bookmarks allows to restart the bookmark hierarchy at top level:
\bookmarksetup{startatroot}
If the appendix is something like
\chapter{Appendix}
then the entry in the table of contents is formatted as chapter, not as part.
Instead of
\bookmarksetup{startatroot}
\chapter{Appendix}
something like the following can be used:
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{\appendixname}
\chapter*{\appendixname}
Explanation, see 2.
2. Index bookmark
\printindex
\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{Index}
Then you get the page number from the end of the index in the table of contents.
The bookmark also needs an anchor that can be set by \phantomsection.
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection % anchor setting
\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{\indexname}
\printindex
3. Page bookmark links
The following example shows, how the correct absolute page numbers can be
get from labels for use in \bookmark. I use package zref here for the
labels and references, because it provides absolute page numbers and expandable extraction methods.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-30pt}{20pt}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\usepackage[hidelinks,bookmarksopen=false]{hyperref}[2011/02/05]
\hypersetup{
pdftitle={test},
pdfauthor={\textcopyright test},
pdfsubject={test},
pdfkeywords={test},
}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{shorttoc}
\usepackage{makeidx} % allows index generation
\makeindex
\usepackage{tocstyle}
\usetocstyle{allwithdot}
\usepackage{zref-abspage}
\makeatletter
\newcounter{zpage}
\renewcommand*{\thezpage}{pagelabel\the\value{zpage}}
\newcommand*{\pagebookmark}[2][]{%
\stepcounter{zpage}%
\zref@labelbyprops{\thezpage}{abspage}%
\zref@refused{\thezpage}%
\bookmark[{%
page=\zref@extractdefault{\thezpage}{abspage}{1},%
view={XYZ},%
#1%
}]{#2}%
}
\makeatother
\setcounter{tocdepth}{4}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\author{test}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\hypersetup{pageanchor=false}
\pagebookmark[rellevel=1,keeplevel,bold,color=blue]{Cover}
\begin{center}
\fbox{\bfseries\Huge Cover}
\end{center}
\newpage
\null\newpage % empty page
% Verlagsseite
\pagebookmark[rellevel=1,keeplevel,bold,color=blue]{Info}
\begingroup
\huge
\textbullet \hspace{0.1cm} test \hspace{-0.1cm} \textbullet
\vspace{7cm}
\large
test test
\vspace{4cm}
Die Verlagsseite
\newpage
\endgroup
\frontmatter
\pagestyle{headings}% or whatever
\hypersetup{pageanchor=true}
\chapter*{Dedication}
\chapter*{Foreword}
\chapter*{Preface}
\chapter*{Acknowlegements}
\cleardoublepage
\pagebookmark[rellevel=1,keeplevel,color=red]{Inhalts\"ubersicht}
\shorttableofcontents{Inhalts\"ubersicht}{1}
\cleardoublepage
\pagebookmark[rellevel=1,keeplevel,color=red]{Inhaltsverzeichnis}
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\part{First part}
\chapter{First chapter}
\index{first}
\chapter{Second chapter}
\index{second}
\part{Second part}
\chapter{Third chapter}
\index{third}
\chapter{Fourth chapter}
\index{fourth}
\backmatter
\appendix
\bookmarksetup{startatroot}
\chapter{\appendixname}
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{part}{\indexname}
\printindex
\end{document}
The bookmark window:
4. Empty pages
\section*{}\newpage
is not the best way to create empty pages, the risk of side effects because of
the complex \section is too large. A simple \null is sufficient to get
something invisible on the page:
\null\newpage
Headers/footers can also be suppressed, if needed:
\begingroup
\thispagestyle{empty}
\null
\newpage
\endgroup
But in the cases above often a simple
\cleardoublepage
might suffice.
5. Invisible links
Because the document is intended for printing, invisible links make sense.
Since hyperref 2011/02/05 v6.82a option hidelinks is added for this purpose.
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