Disappearing TOC and TOCI tags upon PDF export

Report · Apr 04, 2025

I am working with a set of InDesign documents that my team and I have maintained and updated for years. These documents contain various table of contents, and up until early March 2025, I was able to export these docs to PDF and the TOC and TOCI tags were exported properly. Starting in early March, these tags are no longer being exported.

These InDesign docs have remained unchaged since mid-February 2025 (at which point everything was exported as normal), and the only thing that has changed is an updated version of InDesign.

My InDesign auto-updated yesterday (4/3) to v20.2, and prior to that I had v20.1, but I am not sure when that was updated from 20.0 or 20.0.1.

Is it possible that TOC/TOCI export was broken in version 20.1 of InDesign?

Is it posible to revert back to a specific version of InDesign?

Report · Apr 06, 2025

You can roll back to a previous version

Rollback to a previous InDeisgn version

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/install-previous-version.html#:~:text=Open%20the%20Cr....

I always keep the previous version of InDesign, I have 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 installed.

I work currently in 2022, but moving to 2023 shortly after a lot of testing.

Don't uninstall old versions, as currently you can't reinstall back more than 2 versions.

Report · Apr 07, 2025

Hi @patrick_5498,

I hope rolling back to a previous version of InDesign, as Eugene suggested, helped resolve the issue. For us to investigate on it, could you please share a sample InDesign file along with a short screen recording of your workflow, especially the export process and how the tags are showing up in Acrobat? That would really help us investigate this further with the team. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Abhishek