Odd bug printing FM to PDF

[Ridder, Fred]

It's not a bug. It is behaving as designed. The active area (hot spot)
for a hyperlink extends from the hypertext marker until either a change
in formatting or a paragraph break is encountered. It works that way 
when you manually insert a hyperlink, and it works that way when
FrameMaker inserts a hyperlink for you.
 
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Joe Malin
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:47 PM
To: framers at FrameUsers.com
Subject: Odd bug printing FM to PDF

Hi!
 
Seems like I've found an odd bug with hyperlinks from generated files
when I "print" an unstructured FM book from FM 7.1 to PDF.
 
I have found that when I print a FM book to PDF, the page numbers in the
TOC and index are automatically converted to hyperlinks in the PDF. The
text of the entry is also converted to a hyperlink. Thus, when I move my
cursor over the entry or page number in the PDF file, it turns from a
hand to a pointer.
 
However, if the entry's text is not in the default paragraph format for
the entry, this automatic conversion doesn't happen.
 
For example, if I go to the TOC reference page and change (for example)
the line for the chapter entries so that the page number has a "bold"
character format, the entry is converted to a hyperlink but not the page
number itself. 
 
So if I have the line
 
<$paranum><$paratext><$pagenum>
 
(this line has the paragraph tag ChapterTitleTOC)
 
and I select "<$pagenum>" and apply a character tag (say "Bold"), then
the chapter entries in the TOC look fine, but the page numbers are
converted to hyperlinks in the PDF. The *chapter* number and text are
hyperlinks but not the *page* number.
 
This also happens if I surround <$pagenum> with a <Bold> tag, for
example
 
<$paranum><$paratext><Bold><$pagenum><Default Para Font>
 
This also happens in index entries.
 
Anyone seen this before?
 
Joe
 

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