Beamer: how to make each frame appear in the PDF toc?

Question

I would like to have a beamer presentation in which every frame appears in the PDF table of contents (i.e. has a bookmark). My specific presentation only has sections, so all of the frames can appear as a "subsection" on the PDF. Note that I don't want to make a subsection for each frame.

One way to do that is make up a command that patches frametitle by calling the appropriate bookmark command of hyperref. Is there any better way?

Just to clarify, you want them to show up on the frame containing the table of contents or do you want to see them in your PDF viewer's sidebar/listing? — Carsten Thiel, May 03 '11 at 08:16

score 21 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

Here is a solution that patches an auxiliary macro in \frametitle, adding code that adds a bookmark and table-of-contents line as if it were a subsection (you can just comment this out if not wanted):

\documentclass{beamer}

\AtBeginSection{\frame{\tableofcontents[currentsection]}}

\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% save the current definition of \beamer@@frametitle
\let\nobookmarkbeamer@@frametitle\beamer@@frametitle
% then patch it to do the bookmarks and/or TOC entries
\apptocmd{\beamer@@frametitle}{%
  % keep this to add the frame title to the TOC at the "subsection level"
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\beamer@subsectionintoc{\the\c@section}{0}{#1}{\the\c@page}{\the\c@part}%
        {\the\beamer@tocsectionnumber}}%
  % keep this line to add a bookmark that shows up in the PDF TOC at the subsection level
  \bookmark[page=\the\c@page,level=3]{#1}%
  }%
  {\message{** patching of \string\beamer@@frametitle succeeded **}}%
  {\errmessage{** patching of \string\beamer@@frametitle failed **}}%

\pretocmd{\beamer@checknoslide}{%
  % ensure the bookmark is not created if the slide is filtered out
  \let\beamer@@frametitle\nobookmarkbeamer@@frametitle
  }%
  {\message{** patching of \string\beamer@checknoslide succeeded **}}%
  {\errmessage{** patching of \string\beamer@checknoslide failed **}}%

\makeatother



\begin{document}



\section{First Section}

\begin{frame}{First frame}Text\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Second frame}Text\end{frame}



\section{Second Section}

\begin{frame}{Third frame}Text\end{frame}

\begin{frame}\frametitle{Fourth frame}Text\end{frame}

\begin{frame}<handout>\frametitle{Fifth frame}Text\end{frame}


\end{document}

I had to dig around in beamerbasesection.sty to figure that out. But it seems to work.

Output

EDIT. (by cyberSingularity): Now prevents unwanted bookmarks when the slide is not shown by also patching \beamer@checknoslide, and provided an additional frame to test.

Note: if there are frames with multiple slides (e.g. due to \pauses), you may also be interested in this follow up question.

@cyberSingularity: Very useful addon, thanks for sharing it! — Daniel, Oct 05 '13 at 21:52
Am I the only one to have issues with this patch when printing the bibliography? `ERROR: Missing } inserted.
--- TeX said ---
} l.6 \beamer@sectionintoc {1}`and my first section — Francesco, May 04 '14 at 13:35
This adds duplicate entries to TOC when a single slide uses \framebreak — Nicholas Hamilton, Nov 16 '15 at 23:08

Beamer: how to make each frame appear in the PDF toc?

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