This is a huge stab in the dark, but if one connects text frames manually, especially text frames several pages away, then it might be possible to create a flow of text from page 1 to page 4 to page 7 to page 3 to page 2, etc. The resulting bookmarks and the TOC would not be in page order but in flow order.

Does the TOC have the same order as the bookmarks?

Again, a real stab in the dark.

So you're using multiple text flows?

Are the bookmarks in order within the flows?

We are having the same problem. Did you find a solution?

Thanks.

Has anyone figured out how to fix this? I am having the same issue, my company wants our manuals to look a certain way, so I put a text frame with specific text at the top of the page to get the bookmarks from distiller to work right. It was going great doing it that way until here recently, my bookmarks are now all out of order, I have to be very careful about watching them, it seems the first level will include the everything from the second level and below for the next chapter. I recently decided to try and change the way I generated the bookmarks, by deleting the text frame and puttin gth especific text elsewhere. That fixed it in most places, but now the very last two chapters are all whacky, I have checked and double checked flows, made physical changes in the structures, and researched for days. This is the only thread anywhere that I could find anything resembling my problem. Any Idea as to how to fix this, or whats causing this?

Honestly I don’t know, I think its un-structured, the only reason I don’t know exactly is because I have only had to use what was already set up here, so I haven’t seen both versions. From what I found online un-structured has paragraph formats and structured has elements. I use paragraphs so unless there is a better way of knowing exactly that I couldn’t find in a 2 minute search, I think its un-structured.

My company decided we didn’t need to upgrade from FrameMaker 9

Any idea if that translates into a fix, or at least work around for Frame 9? Sorry my FrameMaker skills are sort of limited as what I do I have been told is extremely basic use of FrameMaker

I think it might be the Flow issue

Zoom out the Frame to 25% to as as many pages as necessary.

Click in the flow you want to check and choose Edit > Select All In Flow. The flow is highlighted, showing how it traverses the pages of the document.

There might be some those have become disconnected:-

Select the first frame.

Select the second frame.

Format > Customize Layout > Connect Text Frames.

Create the pdf again .

I will have to look try that, thanks for the suggestion, though I do not have the time to test that today.

I have re-created the Appendix C chapter that I was having problems with, and everything seems to be working great now, I don’t know if that means it was a problem in the formatting or overall structure of the chapter, or what. I guess that’s what I get for using someone elses leftovers.