Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker

[Bill Briggs]

Yeah, it would be a really great thing to have all of FrameMaker's hypertext capabilities survive to PDF. But we'll see a plethora of tiny little Photoshop-style pallets before we'll see something useful like what Dan was talking about. Makes you wonder what drives the decision mechanism (if there is one) regarding software improvements. Once FrameMaker is reduced to a single platform, down from the glory days when it was on many. Two great quotes from the Wikipedia entry for FrameMaker.

"At the height of its success, FrameMaker ran on more than thirteen UNIX platforms, including NeXT Computer's NeXTSTEP and IBM's AIX operating systems."

"Frame Technology later ported FrameMaker to Microsoft Windows, but the company lost direction soon after its release."

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At 4:31 PM -0400 4/26/06, Rick Quatro wrote:
>Hi Bill,
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>I agree wholeheartedly, but it's a shame that only FrameMaker users can benefit. As Dan said, it would be nice if all of FrameMaker's hypertext goodies would convert to PDF.
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>Rick
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>>Popups in FrameMaker are a treat. I made a little book for myself once (it had all sorts of stuff in it related to work, an address book, and a ton of other stuff) and I used it in printed form daily, but it had popups and hyperlink buttons for navigation in the software version. It was a great way to get around the book. I've used them in a few other places too, sometimes with an "invisible" button, so there was nothing in the printed version. Always loved that feature.
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