Bookmarks in InDesign

Is there any way to bookmark a graphic in InDesign? I know I can bookmark pages or text, but graphics don't seem to work. I started bookmarking the articles in the magazine I work on to make it faster to navigate. I thought I'd bookmark the ads too, but the bookmarks get lost if I move the ad (whereas the article bookmarks work even if I add more pages before them). Maybe bookmarks only affect full pages?
Also, I noticed that if I want the bookmarks to appear in a PDF they don't work unless I also enable Hyperlinks? Is something wrong, or is that just the way it works?
Thanks, Phyllis

Create a paragraph style called "advertiser" or something equally informative and use it to make the tags.
MAKE SURE THE TAGS ARE SET TO NON-PRINTING. One way to do that would be to make an object style and assign the paragraph style and also set the style for non-printing in the "text wrap and other" section of the style definition. Make a frame, and apply the style, then put it in a library for easy duplication as you need it.
When you make the TOC, title it Index to Advertisers or whatever, then include only the advertiser paragraph style. If you need sub-groups you'll probably need to create different paragraph styles for each, and you may need to even create a separate TOC for each subgroup (you can have as many TOCs as you need) and then combine them -- I haven't played with that for a while and I've forgotten what I actually concluded about sub-groups.
Let us know what you work out.

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I'm having problems getting more than 2 bookmarks to work once I export my Indesign file to an interactive pdf. The bookmarks work within Indesign but when I export the file as a pdf, only two of the three bookmarks work properly. What could be the problem?
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Creating bookmark in indesign

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I am trying to create bookmark that opens another document's 1st page?. This can be done by usking link option. But I am trying to do with bookmark!
Is there any possible ways? I am using CS5.
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arul

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You have to open your PDF in Acrobat Professional and add/edit bookmarks there....

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We developed one script for creation of Bookmark in InDesign CS2. When we are runnign this script content formatting is getting anmoly changed, I analyzed InDesign file and came to know that due to a font called "Trade Gothic Bold No. 2" due to this font all formatting of the content is getting change.
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In all likelihood, you have based one or more of your paragraph styles on "[Basic Paragraph]". If the Basic Paragraph style differs from document to document, then when you paste text in it will change to match Basic Paragraph in this doc instead.
Edit the styles in both documents to be based on "No Style" instead.

Bookmarks in an Interactive PDF

When I export a large book from CS6 to an interactive PDF, the bookmarks are jumbled. Many are missing the chapter heading so the levels within those chapters are thrown off and some chapter heading appear as a lower level at the end of the previous chapter. The last seven chapters appear at the beginning (in reverse order). The contents within those chapters seem to be in correct order. There are also capitalization issues.
The book is made up of 38 documents (Chapters) and is 584 pages, with appx 1860 Chapter headings and subheadings that should appear as bookmarks. I have tried changing things in the main documents but that doesn't seem to change even the cap problem.
Where is the PDF bookmarks generated from in InDesign and can I fix it before exporting because I don't really want to have to reset 1860 bookmarks in Acrobat?

There are two ways to create bookmarks from InDesign: (1) Manually from the Bookmarks panel, or (2) creating a Table of Contents in Layout > Table of Contents. The bookmarks should be generating if the checkbox for creating PDF bookmarks is checked, by the way you've set up the TOC. You can set up levels of bookmarks there.

Sort bookmarks alphabetically

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I created bookmarks in Indesign using a TOC, but in Acrobat they appear in reversed order (bookmark on last page appears first in list).
1) can I reverse that order, so the order of bookmarks follows the order of the pages in my PDF?
2) can I alphabetically sort bookmarks?
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Chapter 2
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Tom,
Thanks for sharing this info. Recently becoming a Mac-ite you've taken away frustration of solving this. I'll download the software today.
By the way how's PA doing these days, my folks still live in a small town south of Harrisburg?
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Sam
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How to create bookmark?

hi,
pls help me, how to create bookmark in indesign sdk?
thanks,
screen410099

here,my code
ErrorCode status=Utils<Facade::IBookmarkFacade>()->CreateBookmark(bookMarkUIDRef,documentUIDRef.Get UID(),&newbookMarkUIDRef,bookMarkStr);
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InDesignBookmarks

I am writhing below code for adding bookmarks in InDesign CS4
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Dim indTD2 As InDesign.Text = BMNd.Texts(1)hd2 = hdd2.Add(indTD2)
Dim BkName As String = indTD2.ContentsBkName = RemoveJunk(BkName)
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Try the following code to add a bookmark in InDesign CS4
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Go to the source of a TOC entry

I know that I can use the Bookmarks panel to go to the page source of a TOC entry. Is there a way to go to the paragraph source so that the text cursor will go to the exact paragraph that is the source of the TOC entry?

jay fresno wrote:
Petteri,
As you suggested, I created a keyboard shortcut for the Hyperlinks:Go To Destination command.
However, my TOC entries are not listed in the Hyperlinks panel; they are listed in the Bookmarks panel. So, I'm not sure how the shortcut will help to go to the destination of a TOC entry, or how the shortcut differs from selecting the same command from the flyout menu of the panel.
Please provide guidance on how to use the method you suggested to find the destination of a TOC entry. Once the TOC destination is found, how can I know which is the exact paragraph -- is there any indication, such as the cursor gets inserted in the paragraph?
TOC entries are disconnected from their sources. They are not hyperlinks. Within InDesign, there's no way to jump from a TOC entry to its source, as there is within FrameMaker
In the Layout > Table Of Contents dialog box, the option Create PDF Bookmarks does exactly that - makes PDF bookmarks.
InDesign TOC entries and index entries require you to check Hyperlinks in the Include section of the PDF Export dialog box, to create them as clickable links in the exported PDF.
HTH
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Peter
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Go the the source of a TOC entry

InDesign can navigate to the page source of a TOC entry using the Bookmarks panel. But there doesn't seem to be a way to navigate to the exact paragraph source of the TOC entry.
If anyone is aware of a script that would add this capability to InDesign CS4, it would be a wonderful help and time-saver for trouble-shooting the TOC.
(cross-posted in InDesign forum)

jay fresno wrote:
Petteri,
As you suggested, I created a keyboard shortcut for the Hyperlinks:Go To Destination command.
However, my TOC entries are not listed in the Hyperlinks panel; they are listed in the Bookmarks panel. So, I'm not sure how the shortcut will help to go to the destination of a TOC entry, or how the shortcut differs from selecting the same command from the flyout menu of the panel.
Please provide guidance on how to use the method you suggested to find the destination of a TOC entry. Once the TOC destination is found, how can I know which is the exact paragraph -- is there any indication, such as the cursor gets inserted in the paragraph?
TOC entries are disconnected from their sources. They are not hyperlinks. Within InDesign, there's no way to jump from a TOC entry to its source, as there is within FrameMaker
In the Layout > Table Of Contents dialog box, the option Create PDF Bookmarks does exactly that - makes PDF bookmarks.
InDesign TOC entries and index entries require you to check Hyperlinks in the Include section of the PDF Export dialog box, to create them as clickable links in the exported PDF.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

Designing for Accessibility

I am trying to create accessible pdf from an InDesign original. I have watched the videos and tried very hard, and it seems much easier to create accessible epub than accessible pdf. Is there an interest group on accessibility? here or elsewhere? where I can talk with like-minded folks?
We publish a newsletter four times a year, 8 pages, 2 columns, pretty for print. In the past we have also put all these articles on the web.
New management is asking us to publish "pdf only". That is excluding all our print-handicapped users, of which there are many. I am scrambling to product accessible pdf, and it is not easy.
Can I put "bookmarks" into InDesign that will be carried out into PDF so that I can use them as PDF Open Parameters? I want to direct people to a specific article within the pdf file (say on page 5). I see how to do it, but it seems you have to enter the bookmarks in the PDF file itself, after creating it. This makes changes very awkward as all the PDF work has to be re-done every time you recreate the file. If I could put them into InDesign and have them available to all formats, that would be wonderful.
Ideally, I would like to have an InDesign master from which I could extract to html, or pdf, or ebook, or Kindle, and carry all the tagging, table of contents, etc. in a logical reading order to the distribution format.
I would love to talk with someone else who is already doing this!
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Can I put "bookmarks" into InDesign that will be carried out into PDF so that I can use them as PDF Open Parameters? I want to direct people to a specific article within the pdf file (say on page 5). I see how to do it, but it seems you have to enter the bookmarks in the PDF file itself, after creating it.
You can use either generate Bookmarks in InDesign using the Bookmarks panel (Window > Interactive > Bookmarks).
Or, better, you can use the Layout > Table of Contents feature, and check Include in PDF (or some such) when you export the PDF. You'll have to read about creating a table of contents in Help or watch a video.
Remember, bookmarks are not the same thing as hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are found in the Hyperlinks panel.
It sounds like you're learning InDesign as you're doing this. You might get a book like Real World InDesign, or watch Lynda.com videos to help you with some of these techniques.
I don't know of an Accessibility interest group.
You should definitely watch these Adobe TV videos:
Preparing Accessible PDFs with Adobe InDesign CS5.5: Part I
Preparing Accessible PDFs with Adobe InDesign CS5.5: Part II

Bookmarks exist but don't work in PDF (exported from InDesign)

Hi all,
I had a similar problem a few months ago where SOME cross-references within a document weren't taking you to the right place when exported to PDF although they appeared to work fine in InDesign (the "source" and "destination" arrows took you to the right place). Someone suggested exporting the file to IDML and importing again, which worked fine.
Now I'm working on the same document (an update) but it's grown a bit and so each chapter is in its own file within a book. Problem is similar but not the same. Some cross-references work fine in the generated PDF, others are recognised as being links (cursor changes) but NO effect when clicking on them... not taking me to the wrong place, nothing is happening at all. ALSO the table of contents AND the bookmarks don't work.
I've exported each chapter to IDML, recreated the InDesign files and recreated the book, but still no joy. If all else fails, I'll put the book back into a single file but I'd rather not go through this pain each time I have to update the book (especially as this latest change was really tiny).
Any suggestions? Are cross-references between files in a book known to be problematic? And if they are, has the problem been addressed for CS5.5? (I'm looking to use InDesign for a journal that will contain a lot of links between elements, but the turnaround time is tight and I'm wary of this issue being a problem each month.)
Currently using CS5 on Windows 7 Professional, and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended was installed as part of the Tech Comm Suite.
Thanks in advance,
Alison

This is so funny...I was just about to close my email and look up the
Forums to profusely thank the person who posted the solution to a similar
problem I was having in CS4. I'd created numerous hyperlinks in Indesign
documents and sometimes the links worked in a pdf, and sometimes not. The
problem solver was talking about a solution in Word, but I found the same
type of text in the PDF settings box that pops up when you want to save the
pdf. There are all kinds of checkboxes and I'd thought I was doing enough
by checking 'add hyperlinks'...but the advisor said you have to make sure
'tagged PDF' is CLEAR. So the same thing will probably work for you with
your bookmarks! (...if the settings are similar in CS5 of course, and
there's no reason they shouldn't be. I guess.)
The only thing is, there's a lot of what we call 'ant work' ahead of me. I
have to go back to each InDesign doc and retype the text in the home font,
and create the hyperlinks over again. Luckily, the hyperlink destinations
are still there. It's not enough just to export the document again with
the Tagged checkbox cleared, and you can't create a new hyperlink over an
old one; the 'new hyperlink' option isn't available under Interactive. So
you may have the same problem.
Let me know if this works! I'm off to thank the person...
Susan

Has anyone experienced 'Parent' & 'Child' TOC (bookmark version) issues, when using an InDesign Book to create a fixed format ePub3?

Hello,
I'm using the latest versions of AdobeCC and Indesign on the mac to generate fixed format ePub3 files.
I have an Indesign Book which is comprised of 9 documents (chapters). When I create a bookmark based Table Of Contents, I'm finding that I'm having trouble getting the 'parent' and 'child' hierarchy perfect. This is because some 'child' bookmarks need to be under the 'parent' of one document within my book, and yet I need to add the bookmark from a different document (or chapter).
In essence, I'm asking is there a way of having a 'child' bookmark in one document, nestled under a 'parent' on a different document within my InDesign book? All I seem to get are repeats of the 'parent' rather than it looking at all of the documents and synching them.
In the screenshot below (the larger circle), I have added sharks as a parent folder in one 'document/chapter', and then later on in the book (in a different document/chapter, another shark needs to be added to the list under the sharks parent, and yet it doesn't give me the option to add it as a Child to sharks. I created another sharks parent in this later document thinking I might be able to synch across all documents, but all it seems to do is create a duplicate.
Any help appreciated!
Thanks, Joe

Just thought that a much better way of phrasing what I initially asked would be: Is there is a way to synchronize bookmarks across all documents in a book?
Thanks
Joe

InDesign CC book bookmarks not working in PDF

Hi
This is less a question and more an answer to a problem I was having that I found an answer to elsewhere so I thought I'd post it here for others.
I have a 580 book in InDesign CC with a TOC and automatic bookmarks for all the chapters and subsections across the book's 10 documents. The bookmarks work perfectly in InDesign but when I exported to PDF (interactive, with bookmarks included) only the bookmarks within the first document worked. All the others were listed but went to the first page, not their correct page.
I found this link which gave me the answer: http://forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-319074.html
Basically, don't mess with the TOC after it has been created.
I had made a few tweaks to the TOC after creation, such as deleting an extra tab character, applying character styles, inserting column breaks.
Having read the suggestion at the link above, I fixed the extra tab and a couple of other minor text edits at the source paragraphs, tweaked my TOC paragraph styles to adjust spacing and recreated the TOC. It exported perfectly - working bookmarks across the whole book. So then I went back and did a bit of experimenting and found that I could apply colour to the TOC text by directly applying swatches to selected text and it still worked. To get rid of entries that I didn't want in my TOC and to get column breaks where I wanted them, I changed my text frame to single column and threaded multiple single-column frames of varying height on and off my page. This also exported perfectly. I didn't try applying character styles or making any edits to the text.
Hope you find this useful.

In my Acrobat bookmarks are visible but doesn´t seem to take you anywhere... TOC seems to work as it should. InDesign makes those bookmarks point to a hyperlink destination, not to a page. And that named destination get it´s name from document name. You have a special character (second character) in your document name. May be it causes some troubles?

PDF Bookmarks - Change Default Width When Creating PDF File from InDesign

When creating a PDF file (from Indesign CS4) I automatically create the PDF bookmarks based on the InDesign document's Table of Contents.
But by default the width in the bookmarks is always set at "Fit Page".
Is there a way to change the default to "Fit Width" in Indesign before the PDF is created?
It's too much trouble to change every bookmark in the PDF after it's created.
Thanks for any help in advance!

Thanks, Steve. I have actually previously done what "fogharty" suggests and it does work if I want to set the pages to "fit width" or a variety of other options. However, none of the options is inherit zoom which is what I, and many other from the sound of the thread, need and want. We want to respect our end users--not dictate how they must view our PDFs. Hopefully, Adobe will listen and make this option available soon.

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