exported PDF bookmarks hierarchy problem
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Bookmarks problem
I’ve been running into an issue with PDF-based bookmarks on a software manual (built as an ID book), and it’s driving me a bit crazy. I’ve had the problem with every new version of this manual over the past five years, but my OCD copy editor/managing editor mind has just about had it.
The book is comprised of seven documents – one for each part, with an opener with the cover/TOC. It uses a traditional hed structure, with a Title style for each part and three hed levels (H1-H3).
When I’m done with the text, I generate the TOC and export the book file as a PDF. The TOC is generated properly for the book, but the Bookmarks get a bit messed up in the final PDF. What happens is that the second H1 (and all subsequent H1s) gets embedded inside the first H1, as follows:
Title
>H1
>H2
>H1
>H2
>H2
>H3
>H2
>H1
>H2
>H3
>H3
>H2
>H1[etc. to the completion of the chapter, where it starts all over again.]
What I would expect to see is each H1 level as a peer of every other H1 (and it does that after the first one), like this:
Title
>H1
>H2
>H1
>H2
>H2
>H3
>H2
>H1
>H2
>H3
>H3
>H2
>H1
[etc.]This happens with new files, or ones that I modify, and it has worked this way for the last few revisions of ID, including the current one. As noted, the TOC generates properly, with each TOC style (which corresponds to the Title-Hed structure) in its expected level.
Last fall, when I did the new version of the manual, I spent some time trying to fix the bookmarks in the PDF, but I had no luck, and there don’t seem to be any reports of this in the Adobe support forums. Does anyone have any experience with this, or any ideas about how I might fix it?
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Hi Rick! I’m not sure the formatting you used in your examples came across the way you intended… you might need to put “pre” tags around stuff you want to be unformatted.
But you’re saying that the 2nd and subsequent H1 heads are nested inside the first H1? That does seem strange. All documents? True when it’s just from a single INDD file (not a book)?
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