We just upgraded from PAC 2021 to PAC 2024. Previously we never for this warning but now with 2024's Quality section we are now seeing this TOC error and I'm not sure how to fix it. The TOCIs work fine and takes the user to the correct page when selected.
I'm not sure what to do.
Thoughts?
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Hi Eric, could you send us the PDF to support@axes4.com so that we can check the issue.
Thanks, Peter
Hi Eric. I work in InDesign and I have seen this warning too. Reason could be that you link to page in your TOCi instead of the actual heading. This means a Screen Reader will always read from the top of the page, even if you heading is further down on the page. So the quality warning is correct, you should always link to the heading with a text anchor.
Thanks Britta.
We use InDesign's TOC tool which places the TOC and bookmarks based on the heading levels used in the Character Styles Panel. I guess I need to take this to Adobe and see if I'm processing the TOCs incorrectly on that end.
Hi Eric,
I'm afraid you're mistaken or just misspoke. The TOC feature in InDesign cannot use Character styles to create TOC entries, only paragraph styles. But the fundamental problem of the links going to the top of the page instead of to the heading is still a concern.
Good morning, Chad,
Just wanted to let you know that our technical writing group is also running into this issue with our Word-based user guides. We use Axes4 to convert to PDF, then use Acrobat Pro DC to finish remediation. As you know, the TOC links are automatically set to page views, not to headers. We also set the page views to Inherit Zoom. While we realize that this is a warning in PAC 2024 which we can ignore (no problems in PAC 2021), we were just wondering if there are any plans by PAC to fix it. Thank you.
The thing is it can not be resolved. I tried checking Text anchors when creating the TOC and then going in the PDF to edit the link on the page, change it in go to target and then in a impossible small dialog try to find in a lot of created long named TOCAnchor etc. and choose that: the warning remains.
Then I tried setting it 'by hand', edit Hyperlink, delete what InDesign created, add a go to Page, then move to the page, click/select that correct Heading. Then in the code change zoom level to Variable. Stiil warning remains.
I have NO idea how to remediate this on a auto generated TOC. In Word it does not happen, while the settings in the code are the same.
I'm baffled...
Oke, so the only solution I found:
use the Create Destinations fix from AxesPDF;
Then edit the hyperlink and choose the correct destination of the ones Axes created.
That takes a lot of time...
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