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RE: Broken cross-references in PDFs

Subject: RE: Broken cross-references in PDFs
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: cll01821 -at- lycos -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:27:32 -0400

You are correct when you surmise that cross-references that are
contained in text insets are not converted to hyperlinks in a PDF
produced from FrameMaker. I wish it were otherwise, but it is not.

The only way to produce a working hyperlink inside a text inset is
to use an explicit hypertext marker rather than a cross-reference.
Unfortunately, the text of the hyperlink "hot spot" will no longer
be updated by FrameMaker since it is no longer a cross-reference.
If the numbering or wording of the hyperlink's target paragraph
changes, you'll have to update the string in the text inset manually.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ


From: "C L" <cll01821 -at- lycos -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: Broken cross-references in PDFs
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:15:48 -0400 (EDT)


After reading recent e-mails from Donna Jones, Shlomo Perets, and Fred
Ridder, I attempted to fix the numerous broken cross-references in a
PDF, to no avail.


Environment:

FrameMaker 7.0, p578

Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional


FrameMaker File Information:

QS_InstallConfigUseSSOP.fm is the primary file. The file uses 10
conditional tags (to generate 10 PDFs, one per vendor platform).

The primary file contains 7 text insets, including one called
"InstallingTWAINDriver.fm".

InstallingTWAINDriver.fm uses 5 conditional tags (one for each vendor
using TWAIN drivers).

For the Sharp version of the book, I set the conditions in this file
to show the "twainSharp" and "STESharp" condition tags.

A sentence in InstallingTWAINDriver.fm, which is a conditionalized
text inset, contains a cross-reference to a procedure in the same
file, on the next page.


PDF Generation Information:

I print to a PS file and then run Distiller.


Problem:

The PDF does not contain a link for the cross-reference I've described
(along with many others). (I've been troubleshooting the problem using
the primary file and the text inset file rather than generating a PDF
for the entire book each time.)


What I've Done, and Still No Link in the PDF (:

Removed the target cross-reference in the text inset file, updated the
text inset in the primary file, updated the cross-references, and then
generated the PS file.

Kept the primary file and the text inset file open when generating the
PS file.

Selected the Named Destinations check box.

"Showed All" conditions in the text inset file.

Select a different cross-reference format.


In Shlomo's posting of 9/7/2006, he said: "If the expected link is
simply not present in the PDF (but other links/bookmarks do exist),
this has to do with the cross-reference being part of a text
inset." What's not clear to me from this posting is whether it's
impossible to create working links when a cross-reference is part of a
text inset.


All help will be appreciated, as always


Carol
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