How can I avoid having "XE index" entries in the pdf bookmarks frame?

[kirinawust]

Hi,

I try to use RH9 to create a pdf file, but the contents (= bookmarks) frame looks like this:

1 Heading 1

2 XE "Index word 1" /* MERGEFORMAT Heading 2

3 XE "Index word 2" /* MERGEFORMAT XE "Index word 3" /* MERGEFORMAT XE "Index word 4" /* MERGEFORMAT Heading 3

4 XE "Index word 5" /* MERGEFORMAT Heading 5

Apart from the apalling look, these bookmarks jump somewhere, but not to the given topic.

I know I could create a Word document instead and fix the headings there, but I am trying to delete this step from my workflow, because it is to time-consuming.

Thank you for any suggestions!

Irina

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Use the camera icon in the forum's web interface to show screenshots - attachments get stripped off.

[Peter Grainge]

My guess is you have Word to show field names by default so when RoboHelp uses Word behind the scenes, it gets the field name instead. Check your Word settings.

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[kirinawust]

Hi Peter,

thanks, I didn't keep in mind that the fact whether the special characters are shown or hidden are part of the .dot file. That explains why the the index entries vanished at some point ... ;.)

Best regards,

Irina

[kirinawust]

On second look, no:  The same .dot - now hiding all formatting and special characters - results in a pdf-bookmarks (=TOC) frame

a) without index entries, if the ssl hasn't checked the option "Keep HTML Heading levels" and

b) with index entries, if the ssl has checked the option "Keep HTML Heading levels"

  a)  b)

1) Any ideas, why setting this option results in a frame showing things which are hidden in the .dot file?

2) Would an update to RH9 help? (I am very much hesitating this step since I've tried RH9 and found it corrupts all my conditional tags.)

Thanx in advance,

Irina

[Peter Grainge]

The first image is if you get Rh to output to Word and second is if you get Rh, to convert to PDF without a Word document, correct?

Have you tried using Word to create the PDF after Rh has created the Word document?

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[kirinawust]

Hi Peter,

no, both are RH -> pdf directly (although RH uses Word in the background, anyway).

yes, I did, but I am just changing my workflow from RH -> Word -> pdf to RH -> pdf, in order to save time per pdf-manual. This way, I decrease the quality of the manuals knowingly, but can't help it.

My routine now is to remove the RH-made TOC and use the Acrobat features.

It was quite tricky to find out what input RH uses to create what content, e.g. the header (left) and header (right).

[Peter Grainge]

So does the RH>Word>PDF route work?

What do you mean by header (left) and header (right)?

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