How to disable bookmarks in pdf?

[fuhrmanator]

In the following minimal example, when I render it in Visual Studio Code in Windows, it generates a PDF with bookmarks (which seems like a bug, as I'm trying to disable the bookmarks, using the hyperrefoptions: in YAML)

Here's the screenshot of the bookmark showing up in Sumatra PDF:

How can I disable the bookmarks in PDF generated by Quarto?

---
format: 
    pdf: 
        hyperrefoptions:
            - bookmarks=false

---

# Title

Here's some text

ETA a hacky solution found at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13502/how-to-temporarily-disable-pdf-bookmarking is to use bookmarksdepth=-2 as an option.

[cderv]

I believe this will be a sum of several interaction here.

Quarto uses KOMA script by default: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/pdf-basics.html#document-class and the scrartcl document class, which recommand using bookmark package . I am not sure this package support the hyperrefoptions bookmarks=false

So you could switch to

documentclass: article

But then, Pandoc will default to use bookmark CTAN package if available

quarto-cli/src/resources/formats/pdf/pandoc/latex.template

Line 374 in d7c07ef

\IfFileExists{bookmark.sty}{\usepackage{bookmark}}{\usepackage{hyperref}}

This mean you would need to make sure that bookmark package is not available.

If you do so then

format: 
  pdf:
    documentclass: article
    hyperrefoptions: "bookmarks=false"

This above will effectively deactivate bookmarks.

Maybe this needs a Pandoc feature request to make this line different

\IfFileExists{bookmark.sty}{\usepackage{bookmark}}{\usepackage{hyperref}} 

and allow to use hyperref only with no bookmark if desired.

Maybe there is an option to deactivate bookmarks in the CTAN bookmark package, but I did not find it , and this is the purpose of this package built above hyperref which state

One important change of the new driver is that it removed the old hyperref code for book marks and uses the bookmark package instead. So to learn about options to extend the bookmarks you should consult the bookmark documentation too
^(source)

[fuhrmanator]

Thanks for the details as usual!

I tried my MWE with

format: 
  pdf:
    documentclass: article
    hyperrefoptions: "bookmarks=false"

and the bookmarks are still there. At least the problem is documented here.