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OrionDeYoe
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July 19, 2018
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Framemaker Not Exporting TOCs to PDF with Nested Book

  • July 19, 2018
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I have a nested book (a book of books) where each sub-book is a chapter.  Each chapter has its own TOC at the beginning.  Everything is fine when looking at each individual chapter *.book file.  However, when I export the top level book to PDF it just omits all of the TOCs.  How do I get the TOCs from each sub-book to show up in the PDF?

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    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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    Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCommunity Expert
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    July 19, 2018

    Can you provide a screenshot of your .fm book file, and of the results of the PDF?

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
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    OrionDeYoeAuthor
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    July 19, 2018

    Yes.  This is a snip of the top-level book tree:

    The "Pre-Manual & Safety Section" is not really part of the body of the manual and doesn't have visible page numbers.  "Operator's Manual Section 1" is chapter 1 (manually set in the numbering properties for that object in the book).  Here is the book tree for the section 1 book file:

    The TOC for chapter 1 is two pages so the content starts on page three.  However when the top-level book is saved to PDF, it doesn't export the "1200-25 CC Operator's Manual Section 1 TOC.fm" (and all of the other chapter TOCs) with the rest of the book.  Below I have noted in a screenshot of the PDF where the chapter 1 TOC should have been, but wasn't.

    The page numbering is changed during the export process so that the first file AFTER the TOC is now page 1.  When I export just the "Section 1" book by itself, it saves the PDF with the TOC just like it should.

    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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    Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCommunity Expert
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    July 19, 2018

    Operators Manual Nested.book doesn't have a generated TOC

    Create a TOC for your highest level book and you should be good to go.

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
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