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I've got some problem with LaTeX right now, well to be honest it's not really a problem and I'm not even sure that it is possible but I would like to be able to do it.

Basically, here is my LaTeX : 

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\appendix
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{A ~~Included}
\includepdf [pages  = -] {included.pdf}

\end{document}

Let say that Content.tex contains included.pdf. So I have links in the table of contents inside Content.tex and that's good.

But I have also a table of contents inside included.pdf but when I used \includepdf, the link inside this included.pdf->tableOfContents doesn't work anymore...

If one of you has any idea how to make theses links work again, because I looked inside the \includepdf documentation, and I didn't find what I wanted... :/

Thanks in advance for your help,

Best regards

Turion
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  • As far as I know included .pdf are .flat, i.e. all hyperlink information is lost –  Feb 18 '15 at 16:05
  • Can you explain what kind of links those are? I.e. how did you make them? 2. It's a bad idea to include a PDF if the PDF is a compiled latex document. Rather use \include or \input on the included.tex and your links will work. 3. Your document surely contains a \documentclass at the beginning, can you include it?
    • – Turion Feb 18 '15 at 16:06
  • @Turion: The OP does not necessarily have the LaTeX sources at hand, so even if the included .pdf has been generated from LaTeX sources there might be problems –  Feb 18 '15 at 16:09
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    You can use the pax package to ensure that links in included PDFs remain. I wrote how to do this for Windows/MikTeX on my personal website: http://bryanwweber.com/writing/personal/2014/04/13/use-pax-to-extract-and-include-links-from-external-pdf-files-in-latex-on-windows/ – darthbith Feb 18 '15 at 16:09
  • indeed, I don't have the source of the included .pdf unfortunatelly...

    But it was a LaTeX source code before, and the PDF itself (when opened with Adobe Reader for example) has still links (for the Table of Contents for instance).

     –  Feb 18 '15 at 16:10