InDesign PDF bookmarks to named destinations

[Guest]

Earlier this year I wrote a plugin to automatically convert all the bookmarks in a pdf file to named destinations.  This is because the project I work on had a pdf help file and the automatic named destinations created by InDesign add a bunch of random numbers to the named destination names; I need these to be stable so that I can consistently call the same named destination to launch to the appropriate section of the help manual.  So as a workaround, I wrote this plug in so that the named destination names match the bookmark names and are unchanging.

Anyhow, the plug in works great on pdfs I create in MS word or find randomly on the web, but when I try to run it on a pdf file exported from adobe InDesign (our help file is created using InDesign), it fails.  The named destinations are created, but they don't list a page number and hence don't actually work.  Are there any settings in InDesign I need to change or is there something I might be doing incorrectly when I export the project to a pdf that may be causing this issue?

[Steve Werner]

The main InDesign forum is intended for general InDesign users—people who want to know how to use the application.

We have a couple subforums for people who have more technical questions (like yours).

For developers (which sounds like you, if you've developed a plug-in):

InDesign SDK

For scripters (who may have some information about InDesign's insides from developing scripts:

InDesign Scripting

[Guest]

Hi.  Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific.  I wrote the plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Pro, to be used after a help file created in InDesign had already been exported to pdf.  The plug-in works on pdfs created in other applications, but is failing on the help file I wrote it for.  So that said, my question is related to InDesign general user.  My question is whether or not there is some kind of setting or property or something I could be doing prior to exporting the pdf that might fix my problem.  Thanks!

[Srishti Bali]

Moving to InDesign Scripting​

Regards

Srishti