Special Characters Not Displayed Properly in Bookmarks - Acrobat/Reader 4.0x-5.0

Affects: FrameMaker / FrameMaker+SGML, all platforms

Description:

FrameMaker transfers various special characters to the bookmark text, but Acrobat/Acrobat Reader do not support them. Regardless of the Acrobat Distiller version used to distill the file, unsupported characters are shown as a space or ignored when viewing the PDF with versions 3 & 4 of Acrobat/Reader, or displayed as boxes in Acrobat/Reader 5.0.

Characters affected include non-breaking, figure, en, em & thin spaces; non-breaking hyphens; suppress hyphen characters and discretionary hyphens.

Bookmark text is displayed correctly in Acrobat/Reader 5.0.5.

Workaround:

Manually edit the bookmark text in Acrobat.

Available Fixes:

• Upgrade to FrameMaker 7.0
• Ask your end-users to view the PDFs using Acrobat Reader 5.0.5.
• If there is not control over the specific Reader version: use FixSpecialCharsInBmk function in MicroType's SP Bookmark Controller or SP TimeSavers

Additional Info:

Reported by: Shlomo Perets

Date Reported to Adobe:

Version 1.1, August 12, 2002