It's important to remember that the PDF Bookmark setup works mostly in an *additive* way. Frame's variable definitions and format catalogs are fully additive, in the sense that importing a new set of properties (variables or formats) will *not* remove existing properties--it will only add any new properties or redefine any properties that have matching names. PDF Bookmarks are only "mostly" additive because removing a paragraph tag from the bookmark list from the book file *will* remove it from the properties of the book file, but will *not* remove it from the properties that are stored for an individual component files if it was selected in the PDF Setup for that individual files. This can be a useful feature if you know about it (particularly if you are sharing any of your component files among multiple books), but it can be a royal PITA if you don't know about it and don't want to utilize the feature. The only way I'm aware of to straighten thing out is to go through each file in your book individually (including generated files, which are often the source of spurious bookmark specifications) to check its file-specific PDF Setup properties. Its truly edious, but once you've fixed the component files, the book should be fine and should stay that way.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder Intel Parsippany, NJ >From: "Bostjan Cargo" <Bostjan.Cargo at hermes-softlab.com> >To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com> >Subject: Redundant PDF bookmarks >Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:26:28 +0100 > > >I use FrameMaker 7.1 with Acrobat Distiller 7.0 to author, update, and >generate a set of PDF files from the unstructured content. > >There is a problem with redundant bookmarks that I cannot overcome. In the >generated PDF file, there are always bookmarks generated other that the >ones that I specify in the "PDF Setup" dialog box of FrameMaker. I applied >the settings from the "Bookmarks" tab to both books and individual book >components (see >http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=1228#bookmarks) - all with >no success. I also tried to apply these settings via the "Print Document - >PDF Setup...", but it did not work either. In each case, I get extra >bookmarks which correspond to the paragraph styles used in the document >sources (heading levels, table captions, etc.). > >How can I persuade FrameMaker/Distiller to generate only the bookmarks that >I specify in the corresponding properties? > >Thanks in advance. > >Best regards, >Bostjan > > >?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > ~~ Bostjan Cargo ~~~ LP engineer ~~~ VND.GDS team ~~ > ~~~~~ Hermes SoftLab ~~~~~ Ljubljana, Slovenia ~~~~~ > ~~ site: Litijska c. 51 ~~ phone: +386-1-586-5232 ~~ >?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? >_______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Find sales, coupons, and free shipping, all in one place! ?MSN Shopping Sales & Deals http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctid=198,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200639
