Rename PDF, xrefs stop working

[Shlomo Perets]

Martin,

You wrote:

>I'm using Frame 7.1. The cross-refs are regular ones (created with Special 
>-> Cross-Reference).
>One thing I have noticed, though, is that in Acrobat (5.0), when I look at 
>the properties for a "bad" link, there is no "Edit Destination" button. 
>Instead there is text that reads something like "Destination 
>M6.9.72923...e: " followed by the filename of the original PDF. (72923 is 
>the ID number in the marker for the Xref's destination.)

I will have to inspect the specific .fm file and the resulting .ps file to 
have a better idea as to the problem.

>I have tried clearing the "Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs", 
>optimizing PDF size (in Frame), but it does not make any difference 
>(except reducing the file size, which is handy...).

I strongly recommend to have "Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs" 
turned on, or else random cross-references/hypertext links become 
non-functional. This happens too often with PDFs authored in FrameMaker; 
the bad links in FM7.2's "Structure Application Developer's Guide" PDF 
(http://www.microtype.com/homeHmmm.html) provide yet another demonstration 
of this. If the PDF file size is an issue, there are other ways to safely 
reduce unused named destinations.


Shlomo Perets

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