Need help with InDesign Book troubleshooting (TOC links and button links to other doc in the book)

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Hello,

I have been frustrated working with InDesign book.

I have an InDesign book that has 18 Indd doc within. And I have a main TOC that links to each chapter in the book, which is separated by each indd doc.

After I packaged the book doc into another folder, and exported a PDF from that packaged folder into an interactive PDF, my TOC links stopped working. I have to open my TOC doc in that new packaged folder, and updated the TOC again in order for it to be working.

This also happens to the button links that I have. I have a main link on top of each doc that will make ppl easily click to jump to different doc withou having to go back to the main TOC. These links stopped working in the newly packaged folder.

All of the TOC links and the button links are all working already in the other doc.

From a logical point of view, this shouldn't be happening as when packaging the book should be the way to do it.

The reason I have to package the book is because I periodically need to make updates to the content and the company needs to retain the older versions for legal reasons.

This is very frustrating and I am at a total loss. If I have to keep checking the TOC links and button links everytime I packaged the book, that will be very unproductive.

Anyone have any insights on this?

Btw I am still using InDesign CC v 19 because the last time I tried using the new InDD version, I got a lot of trouble exporting to a PDF, which made me move back down to InDesign CC v19.

Thank you!

JS2354 · Accepted Answer

Your second workaround could work with a slight modification: package the book to gather all the assets, then _copy_ the InDesign files over from the original folder. (Let me know if it works... I'm too lazy to try right now... 😜)

So if my understanding is correct, this is what I did:

I packaged the book files and duplicated the book files.

Then, i copy over the duplicated book files into the packaged book files folder. The PDF TOC links and button links are working.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Answer

Have you selected "Create PDF Bookmarks" and "Include Book Documents selected in your TOC Style?

What are your PDF export settings? For example, if you export to any PDF/X setting, it will remove bookmarks and links.

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