Script to generate a table of contents. Supports long documents.

There are a few great scripts out there that automatically create a table of contents for your OmniGraffle document.

This script does as well, but it will spread the table of contents over multiple pages if necessary, and it will also list section headers if you have canvases within your document that serve as section header pages.

It's also extremely customizable.You can pretty much make it look exactly like you want it to look, and you have precise control over almost every aspect of it by changing the properties listed at the top of the script that start with the prefix "SETTINGS_".

Here is one example of how the table of contents for a document with section headings might look, but again, you can customize it to look any number of ways.

The script currently has these limitations.

• It does not gracefully support wrapping long canvas names; if a canvas name is so long it wraps, it's not going to look great.
• Sections (the section header and its child pages) have no way to alter the default widow/orphan control. A section is alway kept together unless its height is greater than the canvas height

If additional table-of-content pages are required due to the document being too long to display the TOC on a single canvas, additional canvases will be created to accommodate additional TOC pages. Note: these will be placed at the front of the document and you will have to move them manually due to a bug in OmniGraffle's AppleScript implementation related to moving canvases. (That bug is explained in a post here.)

The script is after the jump. Copy it and paste it into AppleScript editor and run it.

I'm hoping the comments in the script are sufficient to describe the various customizable options. If you have any questions or find any bugs, or you want any new features, please leave a comment.