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Problem controlling bookmarks display in generated PDF file
Subject:Problem controlling bookmarks display in generated PDF file From:Gen Whitt <gwhitt -at- pacbell -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Jun 2001 07:38:35 -0700
Hi everyone. A PDF question. I posted to the PDF list but got no reply.
Hoping someone can help me...
We are using Frame 6.0 and Acrobat 4.05. We have a set of Frame paragraph
tags that we use to generate PDF bookmarks. We print to Distiller, making a
ps file, then run Distiller separately (rather than using Save As PDF).
The problem is that sometimes the generated PDF file shows the bookmarks
display in the left pane collapsed -- just the chapter titles, with the
plus sign next to each one so that the user can expand the tree -- and
sometimes the bookmarks display is partly expanded, showing the second or
even third level of bookmarks.
I haven't been able to find any settings in Frame or Acrobat that would
make a difference. I have also tried the archives and PDFzone... if the
information is there I wasn't able to find it.
We have many documents and would like the PDF files to be consistent in the
way the bookmarks display when the user opens a PDF file. In fact, exactly
what we want is to display only the chapter titles, and the user can expand
if needed.
We have found that if you collapse the bookmarks and then re-save the PDF
file they stay collapsed; but this is too much manual labor for our liking!
There must be some settings somewhere... how does Acrobat determine how to
display the bookmarks?
If someone could help me out with this, I would REALLY appreciate it!
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