TOC outline forces capitals on some words

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July 26, 2024
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In Indesign my Table of Contents has the correct Capitals and Small Letters. But when I save it as a PDF the bookmarks/TOC outline randomly forces some words to have all or some capitals. Why is it not the same as in Indesign? Also, when I edit the affected words in Adobe Acrobat, the changes do not stay (the random Capitals persist) -- how to correct this?

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

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Can you share a sample PDF? I have a theory, but I'd have to see the file

irap59986829Author

Participant

Thank you, but I am sorted now (see above).

James Gifford—NitroPress

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The only thing that can change TOC entries from their source paragraph to the TOC line entry is styles applied to the source paragraph.

That is, if you have headings in which specific words are bolded with a Character Style, that bolding will be carried through to the TOC entry (which is often unwanted behavior.) It can be difficult to get applied heading styles AND clean TOC lines.

It sounds as if your document has applied styles that are changing in some way in the TOC line, perhaps being removed or a variant style applied (if the TOC is in a separate document with its own styles).

Check all of your document headings to see if any Character Styles are being applied, either directly or via Paragraph Style GREP or Line Style functions.

irap59986829Author

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Thank you, I checked one of the bookmarks/TOC heading that has the problem. One of the words in the heading reads: hypothesEs in the pdf. In the Indesign file it reads as HYPOTHESES. All letters have the exact same paragraph style and say [None] as the character style in properties.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Is there a GREP or Line Style defined for either the heading style or the TOC style? These are applied as part of the style and cannot always be detected by checking the actual text. They also do not transfer to a TOC entry

I'll be honest, I have no other good suggestions except to consider that the document might be corrupted. If you can't find any character styles in use — and I would suspect one that sets the text to all uppercase or small caps — then save the document as IDML, then open that file and save it again as INDD under a new name. See if the export/capitalization problem persists with it.

kglad

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