PDF bookmark

[pdml-director]

I found this template and I love the design. However, when opening up the PDF in a PDF reader (e.g., adobe reader), the bookmarks are not correctly aligned/structured. How can we fix this problem?

[Artaraz]

I had the same concern, but I have started to use it for the thesis anyway because it's a really beautiful template.
I've spent the whole day "chatting (and procastinating) with ChatGPT to see if this issue could be addressed easily... after a whole day and huge number of tries I got a straightforward solution from chatGPT:
You just have to replace the "\newcommand{\mtocsection}[1]{...}" and "\newcommand{\mtocsection}[1]{ ...}" from the kao.sty file with the following:

`
\newcommand{\mtocsection}[1]{
\hypersetup{bookmarksdepth=-2} % Temporarily suppress bookmarks %added%
\addcontentsline{toc}{mtocsection}{%
\ifnum\value{secnumdepth}>0 \protect\numberline{\thesection}%
\else \protect\nonumberline%
\fi #1}%
\hypersetup{bookmarksdepth=2} % Restore bookmark levels %added%
}

\newcommand{\mtocsubsection}[1]{
\hypersetup{bookmarksdepth=-2} % Temporarily suppress bookmarks %added%
\addcontentsline{toc}{mtocsubsection}{%
\ifnum\value{secnumdepth}>1 \protect\numberline{\thesubsection}%
\else \protect\nonumberline%
\fi #1}%
\hypersetup{bookmarksdepth=2} % Restore bookmark levels %added%
}
`

It's basically just adding two lines for each newcommand (noted as %added%)

[pdml-director]

Thank you so much. This fixed the problem!!

[Dirodgu]

Thank you very much! I was also stuck with the same problem :)

[kleinerELM]

This should be a pull request to fix the issue in the template for good.
Thanks!