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Subject:Re: Frame and PDF From:"Tamminga, Ernie" <et -at- DSC -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:32:00 -0700
With Acrobat 3.0 at least, all Frame hypertext links are retained.
--not, I think, if you use the "PDF writer", but yes, if you go through
postscript thence through Acrobat's Distiller.
Standard feature with Frame 5.
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Ernie Tamminga
Director, InfoEngineering
Digital Sound Corporation
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Opinions expressed are my own, and not necessarily those of Digital
Sound Corporation
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Russell [SMTP:jrussell -at- COMMSOFT -dot- NET]
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 1997 11:05 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Frame and PDF
>It's my understanding that FrameMaker can write directly to .pdf format. =
>=20
>
>In writing directly to .pdf format, are all links in the Frame document =
>retained? Or (as my limited understanding of Adobe Acrobat goes), would =
>I still have to go in and manually re-create all my hypertext links =
>within each document?
>
>Also, does this feature come standard with Frame 5 or is it an add on =
>filter?
>
>
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