Bookmarks are out of sequence in the pdf.

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October 27, 2016
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Using FrameMaker 11, when I create a .pdf file, the bookmarks are out of sequence. Is there a way to confirm the sequence of bookmarks while still in FrameMaker, or is the only way to shuffle them around in Acrobat?

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

The tag listings in FrameMaker dialog boxes are always alphabetical. The bookmark results in the PDF will be chronological, and I've never seen them out of order.

What page does SMP-30640 appear in the book? And what page is Historical Data Sheet?

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Timothyc55

Known Participant

More information is needed.

It depends a lot on how the page is structured and what you are using to generate the bookmarks.

If for example you have your Chapter/Section bookmark data in a separate frame and then using headings to generate bookmarks, FrameMaker will look at the Main frame first (Flow A) and then the frame holding your bookmark data. This puts the chapter/section level bookmarks after the headings for the first page.

If you are using structured elements to generate your bookmarks, the level of the data depends on the level of the element.

If you are using paragraph tags to generate the bookmarks, you can use PDF Setup to change the levels based on the paragraph tags you are using.

There are lots of different scenarios that could be your problem.

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Anonymous

I'm using paragraph tags to make the bookmarks.

Problem is, when I go to the PDF Setup dialog box and move them over to the "Include Paragraphs" column, it always wants to keep them in alphabetical order. One of my paragraph tags is "Title" which happens to be toward the bottom of the alphabet so it's always at the bottom of the list. That means my Title book mark is always at the bottom of the bookmarks in Acrobat, but I want it to be at the top of the list of bookmarks in Acrobat because it's in the beginning of the document.

Is there a better way to set the bookmarks?

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Anonymous

So, it's not the level of the bookmarks that I'm having problems with, it's the sequence. "SMP-30640" is the title of my document, so I'd like it to be at the top of the list of bookmarks. But it always ends up at the bottom because "Title" comes, alphabetically, after "Section..." or "Sub..."

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