Bookmark Title Page

Question

Does anyone know how to hyperref the title page of a pdf file? I mean I want my title to appear as the highest level in the bookmaks and the sections will be the next level etc so that the bookmark will look like a tree with branches. Only the sections appear at the moment and stand on their own. Thank you.

Answer 1

I usually do this:

\begin{document}

\makeatletter
\pdfbookmark[0]{\@title}{title}
\makeatother

\maketitle

This uses the title defined by the \title command but you can use something else (then the \makeatletter and \makeatother are not needed).

Answer 2

Another solution is to use the bookmark package. This can be implemented in the following way:

At the top of your title-page code you put the command \hypertarget{TitlePage}{}. This creates the target/label your bookmark will point towards.

Then, insert your code for the title page.

After the \maketitle command you simply add \bookmark[dest=TitlePage]{Title Page}.

For my thesis, I made a separate file for my title page and used the titlepage environment, then included that file into the core .tex document like this:

\hypertarget{TitlePage}{}
\include{TitlePage}
\bookmark[dest=TitlePage]{Title Page}

The bookmark package offers a number of other interesting features, including formatting commands for the bookmarks. One that I found interesting for a thesis is the numbered format that can be loaded as a package option. This option adds the numbers of chapters/sections/subsections to the bookmarks.