General ⇒ PDF contents (viewed in acrobat or Mac Preview) incorrect

[zillions]

I'm generating a PDF for my PhD thesis with pdftex. It's a complicated document with many chapters, include statements, etc.

When I view the PDF in either TeXShop, Preview, or Acrobat Pro 9, the contents of the PDF are incorrect. I see only the first couple entries for the first chapter. Also, the Chapter numbers are completely missing from the contents.

Please see the attached image to make sure it's clear.

I don't really know where to start, so I'd appreciate a quick reply or idea so I can include more details here.

Thanks!
Bobby

[localghost]

It seems that the (subsection) entries without number are typeset with \subsection* and then added to the ToC with the \addcontensline command. From the picture alone this is remains unclear. Try to reduce the problem to a minimal working example (MWE) with only the necessary packages and commands.


Best regards
Thorsten

[zillions]

I've reduced it now to a surprisingly small MWE. When I compile the file below, my PDF contents are actually unchanged! So, even though I have removed all of the contents, the items in the sidebar (photo right side) still remain. Instead it should say chapters One, Two, Three. Do I need to run a separate command to get the PDF contents to compile. I'm using the newest version of TexShop (2.18) and have the options LaTeX and Pdftex checked.

thanks,
bobby

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\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[german,english]{babel}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{one} 
\chapter{two}
\chapter{three}
\end{document}
 
 
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[frabjous]

Those are only there because you've unloaded the hyperref package so it isn't updating. Delete the [filename].out and [filename].aux files, and run a few more times and it should go away.

[zillions]

Sorry, my example was too simple. Here's another try. Now the image still looks the same.

I checked and I don't have \addcontentsline anywhere in my files.

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\documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usefont{T1}{bch}{m}{n}%
\renewcommand\familydefault{bch}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\allsectionsfont{\usefont{OT1}{phv}{bc}{n}\selectfont}
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\usepackage[german,english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\usepackage[square,authoryear,sort&compress]{natbib}
\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{,}{,}
\include{commands}
\usepackage{hyperref}  
\begin{document}   % preamble ends here ------------------------------------------------------
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\tableofcontents
%\mainmatter
\input{one} 
\input{lif}
 
 
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[frabjous]

You're using the \input command four times to insert four other documents -- it appears that almost everything affecting the table of contents are in those other files. There is no way for us to check the output or see what is causing the problem without the files being inputted there.

Please try to actually create a minimal working example without using the \input command, and remove all code and packages unrelated to your problem.

[zillions]

Now I've found a solution by going through this process (as you suggested)!

If I comment out this line

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\usepackage[twoside,varioref,rightFloats]{fltpage}  % fullpage figures w/ captions on opposite side\
 
 
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then the PDF contents are generated correctly. Otherwise it includes only the first few sections.


Now another question:
How can I include chapter and section numbers in the PDF contents?

thanks,
bobby

[frabjous]

Change \usepackage{hyperref} to \usepackage[bookmarksnumbered=true]{hyperref} -- and for more info, see the hyperref manual.