[How to] Title in PDF bookmarks, not in TOC

[ganesh]

Hi all,

I'm new to MadCap and to this forum. I've browsed to see if my issue was already addressed but I didn't find it so here it is.

I have a document with a cover page and a title. I want that title to be displayed in the PDF bookmarks and below, indented, the rest of the headings. I don't want that title to be displayed in the TOC.

If I use a heading style for the title, I get the title displayed in both the bookmarks and the TOC. If I use a paragraph style, it doesn't display at all.

Any idea?

Claudine

[Diana_BB]

I have this same problem. I would love to fix it.

Thanks,
Diana

[rlauriston]

Me three. The title and table of contents should appear in the PDF bookmarks but not in the table of contents. No way to do it?

[lacastle]

Did you try the mc-heading-level style property? i'm not sure how it would work for a bookmark, but this is how you keep headings out of TOCs. Create a class for your heading and apply the mc-heading-level = 0 property. Then make the headings you don't want visible in the TOC use the class.

http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... Levels.htm

[rlauriston]

Setting mc-heading-level to 0 takes the heading out of both the generated TOC and the PDF bookmarks.

[lacastle]

have you tried explicitly adding a bookmark to the location? (and keeping mc-heading-level to 0 so it's not in the TOC)
does the PDF target option, "Include non-TOC bookmarks in the bookmarks panel" make a difference? (i don't use this so i don't know)

[Diana_BB]

Unfortunately, you cannot select which Flare bookmarks are visible in the PDF, nor can you select where the bookmark shows up in the PDF list.

If you set Flare to include the topic bookmarks in the PDF (I don't because they aren't what I want the user to see), then they are all listed alphabetically at the bottom of the PDF's bookmarks pane. The title page bookmark would not be placed at the top where I want it anyway.

The only way I've found to put a PDF bookmark for the title page is to create it manually in the generated PDF.

Diana

[rlauriston]

Anybody know if there's a fix for this in 7.1?

[Jan]

If you are wanting the PDF bookmarks to appear different than in a TOC which is used in other output, I would copy the TOC to temp folder, rename it, and copy it back into the Project/TOC folder. Then, customize it for your PDF output.

[rlauriston]

If you are wanting the PDF bookmarks to appear different than in a TOC which is used in other output, I would copy the TOC to temp folder, rename it, and copy it back into the Project/TOC folder. Then, customize it for your PDF output.

Two TOCs in the Flare project can't solve this, the problem occurs within a single Flare-generated PDF.