Get extra bookmarks when saving a book from FM10 to PDF

Question

I'm doing a couple of documents (books) in FrameMaker 10 that are to be saved as PDF. When doing the PDF Setup and the Bookmarks tab, I have Generate PDF Bookmarks checked and then include paragraphs such as Chapter Title, Heading 1, Heading 2, etc., with the appropriate bookmark levels set.
The process seems to go okay except, I get a bunch of extra bookmarks, all pointing to my Table of Contents.
What's happening is, those headings are also used in generating the TOC, so in the contents, I have paragraphs tagged Chapter Title TOC, Heading 1 TOC, Heading 2 TOC, and so forth. The Acrobat Distiller (I presume) is picking up all of those TOC headings and making bookmarks to them. It's not a terrible event, just a bit of a nuisance.
Interestingly, the TOC-tagged paragraphs don't show up in the Include or Don't Include lists.
It would be a simple enough matter to open the pdf file in Acrobat and delete those extra bookmarks. But we don't have the full version of Acrobat here and are using the add-on with FrameMaker. Can't delete the bookmarks in Acrobat Reader.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

I always use structured FrameMaker. So, I restarted it into UNstructured FrameMaker. You are correct. There is no drop-down for Elements and Paragraphs, because in an unstructured document, there are no elements...duh.
I found that if I open the TOC file, then do a PDF setup just for that file, I find the headings in the Include column and move them to the Do Not Include column.
This indicates that the TOC paragraph tags are in only the TOC file, possibly others.
Like PDF settings in general, I am guessing that when you print a book, FrameMaker gathers information for the Include/Excludes lists from the first file in the book. In my books, all the files in the book use the same template. So, the TOC tags are in all the files of the book, not just the TOC file.
So, you can try opening the TOC file and the book file. Select all the files in the book file and import the paragraph formats from the TOC file into the selected files in the book. Now when you print from the book, the first file in the book contains all the required paragraph tags, which you can move from one list to the other. My guess is that they will appear in the Include list, because that is the FrameMaker default.
I have also found that the book file may not remember your settings the next time you try to print it. So, I open the first file in the book and print it to PDF with all the bookmark settings, etc, I want. Save and close it. When you print the book, the settings are most likely to appear when you open the PDF settings.
Hope this will help,
Van