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• • July 23, 2024 at 9:00 am #14405056
    Phyllis Utter

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    Hi,

    I know I’ve seen this a long time ago, and now I suddenly have a need for it: I want to make a paragraph that’s invisible and affects nothing in the text flow. What’s the best style settings to use here? 0 opacity, no leading? Anything else important and/or likely to cause a problem? Basically I’m trying to put a heading into a Table of Contents style. I don’t want the heading to show up in the actual Table of Contents (printed on the page), but I do want the heading to show up in the PDF bookmarks (I divide the Bookmarks into Features, Departments, etc. — and a heading will make them auto-generate into the right folders when the Table of Contents style is used to generate bookmarks). And I don’t know if that explanation even made sense, but good invisible paragraph settings are all I really need and I’ve seen that somewhere before. What’s the best for that? This can’t be on a hidden layer or I’d just do that.

    Thanks, Phyllis

  • July 23, 2024 at 9:27 am #14405058
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    It sounds like the main reason you want these is for PDF bookmarks…? If so, it may be easier/better to just set them up in the Bookmarks panel.

    More here:

    Use InDesign Table of Contents to Make PDF Bookmarks

    
    and

    InDesign How-to Video: Using Bookmarks to Navigate Long Documents in InDesign

  • July 23, 2024 at 10:06 am #14405059
    Phyllis Utter

    Participant

    Thanks. Maybe I’ll set up a separate TOC for the Bookmarks, but I was trying to make one thing do both! I work on a publication that’s constantly changing up until the minute we go to press. Every time I update the TOC, it’s convenient to have my Bookmarks updating too. The latter get confusing if they’re not organized into folders (hence the need for the heading). I’ll play around with some options though and maybe generate those separately.

    BTW, Creative Pro Week was great!!! I’m still using my notes and I’ve been watching some of the videos as well. :)

    Thanks, Phyllis

  • July 23, 2024 at 10:12 pm #14405088
    David

    Member

    Hi,

    I think you should try to make a paragraph invisible without affecting text flow set the paragraph’s font size to 1pt and its color to white (or the same as the background). Additionally set the opacity to 0%. Ensure no extra leading or spacing is applied. This way the heading won’t be visible in the Table of Contents but will still generate the necessary bookmarks in the PDF. Avoid using hidden layers since you want the heading to be recognized for bookmarks.

    Thanks

    • July 24, 2024 at 4:31 am #14405101
      Phyllis Utter

      Participant

      Thanks! I’ll try that too! I’m the only one who ever touches the TOC, so it’s not likely to mess anyone else up. :)

      Thanks, Phyllis

  • July 24, 2024 at 6:05 am #14405103
    Mike Rankin

    Keymaster

    When I’ve needed to do something like this I just put the text frame containing the “invisible” paragraphs on the pasteboard. As long as the frame touches the document page, the info will show up in the TOC. And that way it’s easy to read while you’re working on it.

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