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robertf65853221
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June 16, 2021
Question

TOC entries don't go where they are supposed to

  • June 16, 2021
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I have a FrameMaker 2019 document where some TOC links produced in the PDF go to a different page number than they are supposed to.

 

Anyone have ideas?

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    Community Expert
    June 18, 2021

    To which paragraphs do the TOC links point to? Are this adjacent to the original paragraphs or is this just random somewhere in the document? Is there any schema?

    Could it be that you have some sort of font replacement during printing and your files repaginate?

    What happens, when you open all your files before updating and creating the PDF?

    robertf65853221
    Known Participant
    June 17, 2021

    This is what I have done:

     

    Update the book

    Update the references

    Deleted the TOC and created a new one from scratch

    Deleted then reconstructed one of the offending paragraph styles

    Deleted then reconstructed the book file

     

    I can't think of much else to do.

    I don't recall this happening before

    CTL+ALT in the Frame TOC takes me to the right spot. PDF does not.

    Pretty bizarre.

     

     

    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 17, 2021

    This is odd...

    Are you using the Publish panel to produce the PDF, and selecting Create Tagged PDF from  the General options?

    Using one of the standard presets?

     

     

    -Matt

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
    Community Expert
    June 16, 2021

    Hi,

     

    I would assume that you did not update the book, before you published the PDF. Or does this happen regularly with other books as well?

    You can always test the links in FrameMaker: Press CTRL+ALT and hover withe mouse across a TOC entry and click. This jumps to the target of this hyperlink. Works also with cross-references.

     

    Best regards

     

    Winfried