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I have a issue about generating bookmarks when creating a PDF. After I have finished my book, I identify my bookmarks while in the PDF setup window. But for some reason, FM creates bookmarks for paragraph tags that I didn't choose. This is happening in particular to my table of contents. I even reconstructed the book file and created a new table of contents, list of figures and list of tables from scratch, paying close attention to every step and I still get the bookmarks I didn't ask for. If anyone has any advice for me I would appreciate it (Adobe or non-Adobe affiliated). My work email is [email protected]... feel free to contact me. Thank you in advance.

The TitleTOC is a marker that is created by FM when we autogenerate a Table of Contents. We also have markers that FM calls Heading1TOC, Heading2TOC, etc.... When we tell FM that we want it to include the paragraph formats Title, Heading1, Heading2 in the TOC (when autogenerating the TOC), FM creates the markers TitleTOC, Heading1TOC, Heading2TOC (respectively). FM creates these markers so that when the book is updated any time in the future, FM doesn't view the TitleTOC, Heading1TOC, Heading2TOC markers as the paragraph formats that they represent.
Funny thing is though...that FM is not assigning bookmarks to the Heading1TOC, Heading2TOC, etc... just the TitleTOC. We think it is a software glitch of some sort (think being the key word there)....but we aren't sure. Maybe you gentlemen have some ideas?
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