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Thumbnails & outline

Sidebar with page thumbnails and document outline.

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Props & interactive options

Prop Type Default Description Try it
show_thumbnails url param 1 Open the page thumbnails panel at load.
show_outline url param 0 Open the document outline / bookmarks panel at load.
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Outline sidebar

Click the list icon in the toolbar to expand the sidebar, then pick between thumbnails and outline tabs.

Documentation

Give readers two complementary ways to move through long documents. Thumbnails render every page as a small preview in a scrollable strip. Outline surfaces the document's table of contents (bookmarks) as a collapsible tree. Both panels sit in the same collapsible sidebar and can be shown independently.

Code

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Frequently asked questions

The outline panel hides itself automatically when the document has no embedded bookmarks. Thumbnails still work and become the default sidebar content.

No — thumbnails are generated lazily as the panel scrolls into view, so even a 500-page document opens instantly without flooding the CPU.