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mattd@macjournals.com (Matt Deatherage) wrote in message news:<372b0f0e.0207182329.455fa9a1@posting.google.com>...
> "Olav Kvern" <okvern@adobe.com> wrote in message news:<ef94099.5@WebX.aaQKaf7vad4>...
> > Sonia-- 
> > 
> > I'm sorry, I don't really understand the question.  
> > 
> > When you create a TOC, the bookmark will contain the text of the paragraph marked as a TOC entry. Clicking the entry will take you to the page containing the paragraph.  
> > 
> > If you want to create a bookmark that takes you to page 1, put a paragraph on page 1 that contains the text you want, tag it with a paragraph style that's included in the TOC, and then generate the TOC and export the PDF. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > Ole
> 
> Ole:
> 
> This sounds great, but I can't get it to work at all.  Nothing I do
> makes InDesign 2.0.1 (Mac OS X) export any bookmarks in PDF files.  I
> have marked three styles as belonging in the TOC, I have lots of
> paragraphs using those styles, and the TOC generates -- but the
> exported PDF contains zero (0) bookmarks.  I definitely have "Include
> bookmarks" checked in the PDF style.
> 
> I've read through Adobe Online, the manual, "Classroom in a Book," and
> everything else I can get my hands on multiple times.  All the
> documentation says is that "bookmarks will be exported," and there's
> an implication that these "bookmarks" are TOC entries.  (Try searching
> the help for "bookmark" -- it's most unhelpful.)  But making TOC
> entries and marking them for export does not create bookmarks in a PDF
> file from "Export..." using PDF.

With the help of a friend, I've found one answer to this problem, but
I hope it's not the only one:

InDesign exports PDF bookmarks for TOC styles if and *only* if the TOC
is visible in the exported PDF file.  If the TOC story is not on a
page you export, you get no bookmarks.  If it's hidden or in a hidden
layer, you get no bookmarks.  If only part of the TOC is visible, you
only get bookmarks for the items that are visible.

This is really not the best way of doing it -- I need bookmarks but
don't want a visible TOC in the document.  Right now, my only choice
is to put a TOC on the last page, make the PDF, then rip the last page
out in Acrobat and re-save the file.  That generates and preserves
bookmarks, but I pray there's a better way.

--Matt