removing PDF bookmark numbering

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Rebecca Harris
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removing PDF bookmark numbering

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I'm reproducing a manual which had previously been in Flare, and I'm having an issue when I publish to PDF. I want the PDF bookmarks to look like the TOC in H+M:

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basics
Chapter 3: Aggregates
Chapter 4: Flow Control
    Logic and controlling the program flow
    If-Else
    Choose
Instead, once it's published to PDF, it's adding numbers to most of the chapters and topics.

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1 Chapter 1: Introduction
2 Chapter 2: Basics
3 Chapter 3: Aggregates
4 Chapter 4: Flow Control
    Logic and controlling the program flow
    4.2 If-Else
    4.3 Choose
I know the topics that do have numbers, like "If-Else," are purposely formatted to have page breaks to a new page, using the Level 2 heading. The ones that don't have numbers, like "Logic and controlling the program flow," are also using the Level 2 heading, but they are within the main chapter page. This follows the previous version of the manual.

Is there a way to remove those numbers for the PDF bookmarks?

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Rebecca
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Re: removing PDF bookmark numbering

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Hi Rebecca,

If you are seeing those in the bookmarks TOC in Adobe Reader then the numbers are actually in the TOC captions as plain text. So what you are getting are the automated numbers generated when the bookmarks TOC is generated, plus the static numbers in the TOC captions. I'm afraid you're going to need to edit the TOC captions to remove the numbers there. That is definitely required, because you don't want static numbers there. For example, they won't change if you insert new topics between existing topics, or when you move topic entries to a different position in the TOC. :)
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Rebecca Harris
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Re: removing PDF bookmark numbering

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Right, but when I take out "Chapter N" from the TOC captions of the chapters, I still get

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4 Flow Control
     Logic and controlling the program flow
     4.2 If-Else
     4.3 Choose
I don't want the "4.2" in front of "If-Else" or other topics. It's adding numbers to some topics but not to others.

Also, since I'm trying to duplicate a previous Flare-produced version of this manual, it would be nice to have "Chapter N" for the chapters. Being able to remove the autogenerated numbers for all of them, or to somehow add "Chapter" in front of the relevant number, would be helpful.
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Re: removing PDF bookmark numbering

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Hi Rebecca,

You can turn off the auto-numbering entirely. Configuration > Publishing Options > Adobe PDF > PDF Layout. Untick Outlines are numbered tickbox.

edit: Well that doesn't seem to work nowadays. :? But you can delete each numbering placeholder in the PDF template (Topics page).

regards,

Martin.
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Re: removing PDF bookmark numbering

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Ah, so delightful for the numbers to be gone! Thanks!
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