System details:

Windows XP Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 2
8 GB Ram

Software details:

Framemaker 8.0 p236
Adobe Acrobat 3D version 8
Adobe Distiller 8.1
Technical Communicator Suite

Thanks all in advance for any suggestions.

When I print a book to PDF, my resulting document seems to move my document heading bookmarks "down" a chapter.

For example, lets say I have a book with the following documents:

Chapter One, title: Dogs
Heading one: Mutts
Heading two: Labradoodles

Chapter title: Cats
Heading one: Alley cats
Heading two: Persians

Chapter title: Birds
Heading one: Parrots
Heading two: Grackles

When I print, my resulting PDF orders my bookmarks as follows:

Dogs
<no entries>

Cats
Mutts
Labradoodles

Birds:
Alley Cats
Persians

and so on

When I print, I select "Generate Acrobat Data" in the Print Document window. In the PDF setup, I have Chapter Title, Chpater one and
Heading 1 and 2 selected. I do not have separate text flows in my document.

Thanks much,

Robin S

Robin,

What is the Chapter One paragraph format?

Do you mean it should be:

Chapter title: Dogs
Heading one: Mutts
Heading two: Labradoodles

Chapter title: Cats
Heading one: Alley cats
Heading two: Persians

Chapter title: Birds
Heading one: Parrots
Heading two: Grackles

If so, then in the PDF dialog select just Chapter title, Heading one, and Heading two.

Or maybe I am misunderstanding something.

Van

Robin,
In Frame's PDF Setup dialog on the Bookmarks tab, down at the bottom, is the Articles: checkbox set to Thread By Text Frame?

Art

Van:

Correct, it should be as you display. But I have Chapter Title, Heading one and Heading two selected and Dogs has Chapter Title paragraph format applied. This happens in all my documents.

Art:

Yes, articles are set to thread by text frame.

The bookmarks are expanded through the Default level.

Thanks much!
Robin

Robin,

When you PDF a single chapter/file instead of the book, does the same thing happen? Or does it work properly?

Art

Hi Art,

No- if i open a file independently and print it, all the bookmarks appear in order.

I've just been rearranging the headings once they are in acrobat as a workaround for this. So...don't sweat it too much. Thanks again for all your help!

Robin S

Hi Robin,

If this turns out to be a software bug instead of user error, I think it might be worth a little sweat. It would be important to know if FM had this problem. Please consider maintaining this thread until we can help you get it right or determine that the problem is with the software.

Russ

Robin,

The fact that you can print component files correctly would lead me to
think that there's either something wrong in the book file's PDF profile or in the book file itself.

Double check which PDF job option the book file is using to print (And which one books that print correctly use) , and maybe try changing that.

And, when you have a couple of minutes to play, I'd try setting up a new book file and adding a couple of the chapter files to it, and test print from that. If it works, add some more chapters and test, and if it works, I'd recreate the book and go with it.

Art