PDF export including some non-header text in table of contents? From earlier edits??

[Alex White]

I'm confused, I've just exported to a PDF (using the default digital high-quality option) and instead of the PDF bookmarks being the headings as expected, I've also got some chunks of text in there too.  You can see in this screen shot the H1 'about this game' and three H2 headings below that, and then there is chunk of the first paragraph appearing there - it is styled as body text, but the first three words are missing (in fact, I think the text reflects an earlier version of the text which had been edited in MacOS Pages before being pasted into my Publisher document). 

Could there be some hidden text lurking in my pages document that I need to root out?

Any help gratefully recieved!

 

[Alex White]

Well, I've been able to fix the problem. 

I don't know what caused the problem. 

I fixed it by showing the anchors /window/references/anchors and then selecting and deleting all the unwanted ones, which were the big chunks of text. 

What I don't know is how they got in there. The document was imported from pages, and it had been in 'review' mode on pages. Anyone got any bright ideas?

[MikeTO]

Hi Alex, when you generate a TOC, it will include all paragraph styles based on the default heading names. I created styles named Heading 3 and 4 and they were included in the TOC.

Even if I deselected Heading 4 in the TOC, the bookmarks were already created so I had to delete them manually. I've filed an improvement suggestion to prompt before including a heading into the TOC.

I don't know what your text styles are like but I assume that the text that wound up in your bookmarks was picked up by the TOC feature. Then you fixed up the TOC to remove it.

If it comes back, look at your text style names. I renamed Heading 4 to "Not Heading 4" to keep it away from the clutches of the TOC feature. 🙂 

Good luck.

[Alex White]

That wasn't the problem, because it was including body style in the ToC (and that would never have been deliberately included in there, or even accidentally included). 

So it still comes down to hidden anchors arriving in the text somehow.