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_Howard_Rodstein_
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March 4, 2008
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PDF Bookmarks From FrameMaker Books

  • March 4, 2008
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This question is about bookmarks in a PDF file generated from a Framemaker book where I want different bookmarks for different chapters. I am using FrameMaker 8.02 on Windows.

Here is a simplified view of my chapter files and the paragraph tags for which I want bookmarks:

Table of Contents.fm Title
Chapter 1.fm Title, Heading1, Heading2
Index.fm IndexTitle, GroupTitlesIX

I used the PDF Setup dialog to set the bookmarks for each chapter as shown above.

If I choose File->Save As PDF on the book, FrameMaker presents the PDF Setup dialog which overwrites my preset bookmarks settings in the individual chapters. I can not choose a superset of all the bookmarks because GroupTitlesIX does not appear in either of the lists of paragraph tags to be converted to bookmarks. Despite this, I do get a bookmark for the GroupTitlesIX paragraphs in the index.

If I choose File->Print Selected Files, Acrobat also changes the paragraph tags/bookmarks setting for each selected file.

What would clarify this is an explanation of how FrameMaker chooses which paragraph tags to convert to bookmarks and under what circumstances FrameMaker changes the paragraph tags/bookmarks setting for files of a book.

Or simply how to you use different paragraph tags for bookmarks in different files of a book?

Thanks.
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    _Howard_Rodstein_Author
    Participant
    March 6, 2008
    Thanks for the suggestions.

    In the first document in the book, I set the Include Paragraphs list of the Bookmarks tab of the PDF Setup dialog to be a superset of all of the bookmarkable paragraph tags in all of the files in the book. This appears to work.
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    _Sam_Erickson-Reed_
    Participant
    March 5, 2008
    Hey Howard,

    We use the Save as PDF all the time and don't have any problems with our bookmarks. We did have to be a little creative in order to get the different headings in the different chapters to show up as bookmarks. All we do is to import the different paragraph styles into the first file in the book (in our case, it is "front.fm"), which usually involves importing the paragraph tags from the TOC, one chapter file, and then Index.

    When you are ready to create your PDF file, make sure the first file (with all the required para tags) is selected, then do a Format > Document > PDF Setup and configure your bookmarks. Now do a Save as PDF on the book, still with that particular file selected, and double-check your bookmark settings. All required bookmarks should still be available.

    Now they are forever configured and you can successfully do a Save as PDF file every time.

    Sam
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    _Van_Kurtz_
    Known Participant
    March 4, 2008
    Howard,

    As you will see throughout these forums, it is generally not good to create PDFs with File > Save as PDF. There appear to be a variety of problems.

    I always select either File > Print Book or File > Printed Selected Files. Then in the Print dialog box, select Adobe PDF as the printer.

    I have not created a PDF in unstructured Frame in a long time. I use structured Frame, but whatever paragraph styles you select to be bookmarks, bookmarks should be made. Note that the styles you select for the bookmarks apply to ALL files (whether the whole book or a selected subset) you are printing with the Print command. If you want to be able to select different styles as bookmarks for each document, then you have to print to PDF each document separately and select the styles each time you print to PDF.

    Hope this clears things a little,
    Van
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