TOC entries only from some files in book

[Gordon_Woolf@adobeforums.com]

What am I not doing?

The TOC is created with entries only from a couple of the files in a book. I have synchronised styles .

Gabriel Ayala reported a similar problem in January and did not seem to get an answer -- other than a suggestion to click the "include in TOC" box in the style definition, which does not exist as InD sensibly brings all TOC commands into the same dialog box.

InDesign CS 3.0.1 WinXP

[Gabriel_Ayala@adobeforums.com]

Gabriel Ayala reported a similar problem in January and did not seem to
get an answer




Yes, you're right and I still have not completed that Russian manual.

1. Are you working with plain English?
2. Did this book come from converted PM files?

[Gordon_Woolf@adobeforums.com]

1.. Yes, international English.

2. No, not from PM, but the most of the book was previously in InD 2 and did have a TOC there, though I thought I'd deleted all references to that.

Several of the book files are new but there does not seem to be a relationship between new and old in what files are "contented" and those which are not.

[agreen@adobeforums.com]

I've had similar problems using TOC in v2 documents, when converting them to CS. CS has created problems with the Paragraph Style that I use for the TOC itself - it doesn't handle the right aligned tab correctly.

I've tried recreating and then applying the para style, but it hasn't solved the problem.

[Gabriel_Ayala@adobeforums.com]

I've tried recreating and then applying the para style, but it hasn't
solved the problem.




8o That was going to be my next step in resolving my problem with this. How can this be true?

I suppose the only alternative left is to recreate the entire publication again from scratch. >:(

[agreen@adobeforums.com]

Not sure why it happens.

The specific problem with mine is that the right aligned tab appears 'after' the page number, instead of before as I requested.

However, if I go into the Story Editor, the right aligned tab is shown before.

Something screwy!

I'm sure someone will come along and help...eventually.

[Gabriel_Ayala@adobeforums.com]

I sure hope so. I've just finished another manual in Portuguese and realized that when I click on any bookmark in the PDF it doesn't automatically take me to that page. Clicking on a bookmark only takes me back to the first page. :(

[agreen@adobeforums.com]

You might want to try:
<http://www.blueworld.com/blueworld/lists/indesign.html>.

I subscribed a while back, and have been monitoring what's going on now and again. And from the responses it looks like the other subscribers know their stuff.

I haven't had chance to sort my TOC problem out through them, though. If you find a solution, I'd be keen to hear about it. Maybe post a message on here for me if you do.

ashley.

[Gabriel_Ayala@adobeforums.com]

manual in Portuguese and realized that when I click on any bookmark in
the PDF it doesn't automatically take me to that page




I've resolved the issue by opening the book palette, double clicking on the TOC part of it to open the section containing the TOC, deleted the existing TOC and replacing it with a new one making sure to have the "Create PDF Bookmarks" ticked.

If the issue with the TOC entries (only from a couple of the files in a book appearing) is not solved by the time I have a chance to troubleshoot my Russian manual, I'll post the answer here if I find a solution.

BTW, I can not visit <http://www.blueworld.com> my Internet access is limited here at work :/ Thank you anyway.

~Good luck

[Gordon_Woolf@adobeforums.com]

A long and messy route worked: prepare a new template and run in the text from each old file by control-A and copy and paste.

There were also illustrations to copy across to the new files but fortunately only about 20.

However in this messy and longwinded process I did discover some oddities with the old file, such as that in the first chapter which failed to list in the original TOC, the main text file moved between layers in turning from one page to another, and that there were a number of places where there was a second full frame on the page, usually empty but sometimes with some odd words which showed that the original template must have been created by deleting copy from an existing file. Nasty -- and I only have myself to blame, as I'm the only one to have worked on this job.

Also, I checked and this was a job originally created in InD v.1.5, and then running though every version including a beta or two.

In other words, once I had a nice clean compilation of files created in the way it should have been, the TOC works perfectly.

I'm hoping that the day this took will be repaid in further stages.

Typical case of GIGO...

[agreen@adobeforums.com]

Gordon Woolf,

"prepare a new template and run in the text from each old file by control-A and copy and paste"

Do you mean that you recreated the document from scratch, by copying and pasting all text?

I've got loads of images in my document. It'll take me ages to do that!

[Gabriel_Ayala@adobeforums.com]

I'm going to be fortunate when I do my "control-A and copy and paste". I have at least 100 images throught the entire book but every image in each story is placed as an inline graphic :)
I'll let you know how it turns out when I get to it.

[Gordon_Woolf@adobeforums.com]

Agreen wrote: "Do you mean that you recreated the document from scratch, by copying and pasting all text?"

Basically, yes. However, I wonder if we could use the format which was supposed to allow saving to a format for transfer back to InD 2 but which can only be reimported to InD CS? Can that be brought into a new template?

Anyone looked at it?

[agreen@adobeforums.com]

"However, I wonder if we could use the format which was supposed to allow saving to a format for transfer back to InD 2 but which can only be reimported to InD CS? Can that be brought into a new template?"

Sorry, Gordon. I don't follow.

[Gordon_Woolf@adobeforums.com]

Export to and then "InDesign Interchange" is one of the file type options.

Seems to create an XML file, but how you get an XML file back into InDesign is a complete mystery -- as is almost everything about XML.

I managed to export a file as test.imx

Then I managed to Place it as an XML and got an extra frame on the left hand side of a page window with several items in it that looked as if they might be useful. But then that seems to be the problem with XML in general: it always looks as if it MIGHT be useful.

What to do next is the problem -- and one for another time.

[Gabriel_Ayala@adobeforums.com]

I haven't tried using InDesign Interchange since the only thing I've learned about it is it's supposed to save back to ID 2 like you said but it doesn't work according to this <http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/322be.htm>
I haven't played around with it because I thought it was useless.
Thanks for the info.