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dariop44395310
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March 22, 2018
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Problem with Bookmarks that contain special characters

  • March 22, 2018
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I have a documents with bookmarks that contain phrases with words containing special characters (specifically Italian accents, for example: L’ubiquità della collaborazione

Then I have buttons at the top of the document. Each button links to a specific bookmark. If the bookmarks contain this characters/accents, the button don't work.

So the buttons only work when linking to bookmarks not contain special characters/accents.

Any ideas?

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Correct answer dariop44395310

Vinny38 thanks for the answer. I've just solve the problem by changing the procedure I used to create bookmarks:

This is what WON'T WORK:

- highlighting all the text and then create a bookmark.

Pro: The bookmarks are added automatically with all the sentence that was highlighted

Cons: The bookmark that contains accents or apostrophes, won't work with buttons

This is the way to SOLVE the problem:

- Instead of highlighting a sentence you want to bookmark,

- you just place the cursor at the beginning of the sentence

- you create the bookmark and because you don't highlight the entire sentence you have to manually put the name of the bookmark

Pro: works even if you have accents or apostrophes

Cons: you have to write the name of the bookmark manually.

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vinny38
Legend
March 22, 2018

Hi

I can recreate your issue!

After some testing, I believe the guilty character is not the à but the apostrophe (’).

Two thoughts:

- page bookmark seems to be working fine

- since text bookmark is buggy you can tag "ubiquità della collaborazione" then manually rename your bookmark to add the missing L'

Maybe Interactive PDF experts might come up with better thinking...

dariop44395310
dariop44395310AuthorCorrect answer
Participant
March 22, 2018

Vinny38 thanks for the answer. I've just solve the problem by changing the procedure I used to create bookmarks:

This is what WON'T WORK:

- highlighting all the text and then create a bookmark.

Pro: The bookmarks are added automatically with all the sentence that was highlighted

Cons: The bookmark that contains accents or apostrophes, won't work with buttons

This is the way to SOLVE the problem:

- Instead of highlighting a sentence you want to bookmark,

- you just place the cursor at the beginning of the sentence

- you create the bookmark and because you don't highlight the entire sentence you have to manually put the name of the bookmark

Pro: works even if you have accents or apostrophes

Cons: you have to write the name of the bookmark manually.

Community Expert
March 22, 2018

Hi Dario,

thank you for the workaround!

I'd suggest you'll doing a bug report here:

Adobe InDesign: Bugs: Hot (801 ideas) – Adobe InDesign Feedback

Come back and post the link of the report so that we can vote for fixing the issue.

Thanks,
Uwe