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Importing "Documents Properties" together with "Paragraph Formats" will import the the entire PDF Setup, including bookmarks. This is consistent across all FrameMaker versions.

When using FM7.0, FM7.2 and FM8.0 (but not FM7.1), importing formats and selecting the "Document Properties" category will also import File Info items (overwriting current values).
FM8.0 can turn this off by adding an entry to the maker.ini file, under [Preferences]:
CopyFileInfoOnImport=off

Shlomo Perets
MicroType, FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting

"24 easy ways to improve your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants",
 <http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html>

But the thing is that I do NOT import Document Properties!
I ONLY import Paragraph Formats, and still get the behavior I described!

When importing formats, bookmarks were always part of the Paragraph Formats category.

Indeed, in FM8.0, the bookmark setup is imported even the Document Properties category is deselected. (In 7.2 and earlier, both the Paragraph Formats and Document Properties categories had to be selected for the bookmark settings to be imported as part of the PDF setup).

For the complete PDF setup (including Links, Tagged PDF etc.) both categories still have to be selected.

Shlomo Perets
MicroType, FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting

"24 easy ways to improve your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants",
 <http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html>

Thanks for verifying it. And it explains why I haven't stumbled into this in earlier versions of FM, whereas I have felt that there is something strange with FM 8 as regards how bookmark levels appear to change "randomly". To me, the current behavior appears as a pretty annoying bug!

I want to preserve the pdf setup in the original document when I only import Paragraph and Character formats!

It is pretty cumbersome to deal with this illogical behavior, since the file from which I import formats holds formats for the specific language (i.e it is used to update formats to match the language of the translated texts), whereas the manuals are of different kinds and therefore should have different pdf setups.

As I understand it, there is no elegant way to master this(?)

Hi Harald,

I don't know if you're using FrameScript or not, but I have written scripts that automatically set bookmark levels at the chapter and book level as part of scripts that automate production workflows.

Frame stores bookmark levels as a property of the paragraph styles defined for a document. Setting bookmark levels in a script simply involves walking the list of paragraph styles and setting the bookmark properties of each style.

Best regards,

Martin

Martin R. Smith
www.golehtek.com

Martin, thanks for the offer, but I don't use FrameScript, and I work as a consultant for a company that doesn't use it. So I'll keep the tip for the future.