Title Page as top level in Adobe Bookmark pane

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RyanLang
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Title Page as top level in Adobe Bookmark pane

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Hi all,

Is there anyway to set up your ToC or Stylesheet in Flare so that the title page appears as the top level bookmark/drop down in the Bookmark Pane in Acrobat. I have circled the image below to show what i mean.
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Thanks in advance.
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doloremipsum
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Re: Title Page as top level in Adobe Bookmark pane

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As far as I'm aware, those bookmarks are created the same way as the print table of contents. Each bookmark refers to a particular heading within your document, and the level is equivalent to the mc-heading-level attribute of that heading. So you could include the title page in the bookmarks pane by giving the style of the title mc-heading-level=1 in the stylesheet. Watch out though - this will also include the title page in the table of contents and any header/footer text which may refer to Heading1.
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RyanLang
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Re: Title Page as top level in Adobe Bookmark pane

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doloremipsum wrote:As far as I'm aware, those bookmarks are created the same way as the print table of contents. Each bookmark refers to a particular heading within your document, and the level is equivalent to the mc-heading-level attribute of that heading. So you could include the title page in the bookmarks pane by giving the style of the title mc-heading-level=1 in the stylesheet. Watch out though - this will also include the title page in the table of contents and any header/footer text which may refer to Heading1.
Thanks, ill give it a go.

If i was to only set the title as mc-heading-level 1 and set it to not appear in the ToC, but set the others as 2 or 3 hopefully this will work. I tried setting the title to '0' but no result. so ill try it at 1 and bump everything up 1.
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Re: Title Page as top level in Adobe Bookmark pane

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RyanLang wrote:
doloremipsum wrote:As far as I'm aware, those bookmarks are created the same way as the print table of contents. Each bookmark refers to a particular heading within your document, and the level is equivalent to the mc-heading-level attribute of that heading. So you could include the title page in the bookmarks pane by giving the style of the title mc-heading-level=1 in the stylesheet. Watch out though - this will also include the title page in the table of contents and any header/footer text which may refer to Heading1.
Thanks, ill give it a go.

If i was to only set the title as mc-heading-level 1 and set it to not appear in the ToC, but set the others as 2 or 3 hopefully this will work. I tried setting the title to '0' but no result. so ill try it at 1 and bump everything up 1.
Gave it ago and achieved the desired effect. the only problem is as you said the title appears in the ToC in the PDF. I thought there was a way to exclude cetain heading levels from the ToC but i cannot find it.
Can anyone help?
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Re: Title Page as top level in Adobe Bookmark pane

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Unfortunately if you include it in the sidebar you will also include in the TOC. Both of those are looking at the same style property (mc-heading-level), so you can exclude it from one but it will also exclude it from the other (bane of my life).

A way that might be less obnoxious: create a style like this
p.titlepagelink
{
mc-heading-level: 1;
display: none;
}

On your title pages, include a paragraph of that with the text "Title Page". Then your print table of contents and sidebar will both include a link called "Title Page", which is less weird in the table of contents than the title of the document.
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