Hypertext links in Acrobat 8 documents generated from FrameMaker 8

[Kanti.Mann at schange.com]

Hello Austin:

Could this be your problem, taken from the Microtype FM8 bug list (
http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html):

Cross-file links in PDFs authored in FrameMaker 8.0 use Unicode-encoded 
file paths and file names, which are only supported in Windows 
Acrobat/Reader 8.x or MacOS Acrobat/Reader 7.x or later. 
As a result, cross-file links are not functional when the PDF is displayed 
in earlier Acrobat/Reader versions, even though the target files are 
present. 
When clicking the cross-file links, the following message is displayed: 
"There was an error opening this document. The path does not exist". Some 
PDFs with cross-file links trigger the following message upon opening in 
Acrobat/Reader versions earlier than 8: "This file appears to use a new 
format... Adobe recommends that you upgrade to the latest version of our 
Acrobat products...".  


Kanti 



Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:33:26 -0500
From: Austin Meredith <Ashley_Meredith at brown.edu>
Subject: Re: Hypertext links in Acrobat 8 documents generated from
                 FrameMaker 8
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Message-ID: <200712192233.lBJMXWv5007889 at perseus.services.brown.edu>
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Having recently upgraded on the XP PC from Adobe FrameMaker 7 and 
Acrobat Pro 7 to FM8.0p266 and Acrobat Pro 8.1.1 and Adobe Reader 
8.1.1, we can't get our distilled hypertext buttons to function 
anymore. Our Kouroo project is dead in the water!

We've tried "View Generated PDF in Acrobat," and we've tried 
"Generate PDF Bookmarks," and we've tried "Generate Tagged PDF," and 
"Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs," etc.

The routine, which worked fine in FM7 in distilling Acrobat7 docs, 
but doesn't seem to be functioning for us in version 8, has been 
while distilling to "Embed All Page Thumbnails," and to "Manage 
Embedded Index," and to "Automatically generate web links on All 
pages," and to add a document description under "Properties," and to 
"Reduce File Size," and then to "Enable for Commenting and Analysis 
in Adobe Reader."

However, now, whenever one punches a hypertext button on a web page 
that we have generated, the error message we always get is "There was 
an error while performing an action. Attempt to call a method that 
has not been implemented." These are hypertext buttons that work fine 
on the PC, in connecting one FrameMaker8 document to another 
FrameMaker8 document -- but in between two distilled Acrobat8 
documents on the web, none of them work at all.

An example of this would be the interplay between 
http://www.kouroo.info/kouroo/thumbnails/G/TheGrimkeSisters.pdf and 
http://www.kouroo.info/kouroo/thumbnails/W/TheodoreWeld.pdf

Please somebody -- tell me that you do this successfully, that it 
does still work in 8??? Reassurance would help a lot at this point.