Hypertext links in Acrobat 8 documents generated from FrameMaker 8

[Combs, Richard]

Austin Meredith wrote:
 
> I've recently upgraded to FM8 and Acrobat8 and now the new 
> links in the Acrobat documents I am generating won't function.
> 
> I suspect I must have had some option set in my old Acrobat7 
> that I have forgotten to set in my new Acrobat8, because the 
> links I used to generate still function. However, ADVANCED > 
> DOCUMENT PROCESSING > CREATE LINKS FROM URLS doesn't activate 
> my new links. -- What toggle have I forgotten about?

I don't have FM8, but my guess is that the problem is in FM, not
Acrobat. You probably haven't set up FM to generate Acrobat data (in the
Print dialog in earlier versions) or done the PDF setup. (I don't know
if, in FM8, you still need to create named destinations for all
paragraphs to avoid broken links.)

The Acrobat links from URLs function is totally unrelated. It finds
strings in the PDF that look like URLs (e.g., "http://blahblah,
mailto:blahblah) and makes hyperlinks out of them. It can't do anything
with FM xrefs or text that you intend to be a link, but isn't an actual
URL. 

Personally, I think the links from URLs function is a bad idea, and I
have it turned off. I want to decide -- in FM, by inserting a hyperlink
-- where links are created, not leave it up to Acrobat.

HTH!
Richard


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Richard G. Combs
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Polycom, Inc.
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303-223-5111
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