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Bookmarks not in PDF where they should be

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January 21, 2010
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I have been having this problem with Frame 8 as well as in 9. When I generate my PDF, my bookmarks are not all where they should be. The will not always appear in the order of the pages, and they will be listed under other headings. An example would be, if I had 3 top level tags and each one had 5 things listed under them, When I generate, I might get 6 bookmarks under the first, 4 under the second, and 5 under the third, instead of five under each one.

I have done everything I can think of, and cannot come up with a reason why it is doing this? Any ideas? I can always send a section to someone so they can actually see what I am talking about. At this point, I am not 100% sure if it is Frame or Acrobat, but I am leaning towards Frame.

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sthompson

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Has anyone figured out how to fix this? I am having the same issue, my company wants our manuals to look a certain way, so I put a text frame with specific text at the top of the page to get the bookmarks from distiller to work right. It was going great doing it that way until here recently, my bookmarks are now all out of order, I have to be very careful about watching them, it seems the first level will include the everything from the second level and below for the next chapter. I recently decided to try and change the way I generated the bookmarks, by deleting the text frame and puttin gth especific text elsewhere. That fixed it in most places, but now the very last two chapters are all whacky, I have checked and double checked flows, made physical changes in the structures, and researched for days. This is the only thread anywhere that I could find anything resembling my problem. Any Idea as to how to fix this, or whats causing this?

Harry28586

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Is it a structure doc ?

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sthompson

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Honestly I don’t know, I think its un-structured, the only reason I don’t know exactly is because I have only had to use what was already set up here, so I haven’t seen both versions. From what I found online un-structured has paragraph formats and structured has elements. I use paragraphs so unless there is a better way of knowing exactly that I couldn’t find in a 2 minute search, I think its un-structured.

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AJCMS

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We are having the same problem. Did you find a solution?

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Anonymous

I am having the same problem. It's just with my last 2 appendices. Appendix G and H switch in the PDF file, but not in the

TOC. I've tried manually connecting the text flows and disconnecting them, but nothing changes the PDF. ??

Arnis Gubins

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Have you set the Bookmark levels (i.e. indenting them in the correct hierachy) in the PDF Setup? See: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WSC499FA78-8A12-4222-A5D9-D5DC41DAA0C9.html#WS1BBDCED7-3125-445c-84AD-2A05910E7B61

Are the selected paratags all in the same flow?

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garyhattAuthor

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This isn't a level problem, it is a position problem. Meaning it is not at what level they are indented, it is that they will move to be under a different level/head/tag (whatever you want to call it) than they should be. And I will also say, which I need to start prefacing, I have been using Frame for about 15 years, so I am not new to things.

I have done it both ways, with the paratags as part of the same flow, and not part of the flow. Basically, think of an engineering drawing, where the main flow would be the drawing, and the other paratags are coming from the title blocks around the edge of the drawing. At this point I am stumped, since it doesn't work either way. So I am not positive whether it is Frame that is messing it up, or Acrobat when it is being distilled.

I would be more than happy to send the file to someone to look at and see if you have any success, or if there is something wrong, tell me what it is.

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Van Kurtz

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This is a huge stab in the dark, but if one connects text frames manually, especially text frames several pages away, then it might be possible to create a flow of text from page 1 to page 4 to page 7 to page 3 to page 2, etc. The resulting bookmarks and the TOC would not be in page order but in flow order.

Does the TOC have the same order as the bookmarks?

Again, a real stab in the dark.

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