Link on Index References in PDF

[Ian Hawkins]

It's called IndexRef, from www.sundorne.com. I think somebody must have 
replied to Fei Min personally because she has downloaded the evaluation 
version already.

I've been offline most of the day or I would have jumped in earlier.

Ian Hawkins
Sundorne Communications

Peter Gold wrote:
> Hi, Fei Min:
>
> I think there's a FrameMaker plug-in or script that adds the ability
> you want. Try searching Google and the various fora for variations on
> see also plugin, FrameMaker plug-ins, etc.
>
> I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned it by name, yet. Perhaps
> re-titling your subject to something like "FrameMaker see-also TOC
> enhancement needed," you'd get more focused responses.
> ________________
> Regards,
>
> Peter Gold
> KnowHow ProServices
>
>
> On 6/27/07, FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com <FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com> wrote:
>> This is my first time creating an index in FrameMaker in over 10 
>> years, so
>> I'm a bit out of touch. The last time I had to do this, we just printed
>> the manual; we didn't publish it as a PDF.
>>
>> Now I've discovered that when I have a "see" or "see also" reference 
>> in my
>> index, the PDF version of the index creates a link from those words 
>> to the
>> place where I put that index marker. For example, if my index entry has:
>>
>> absolute data file
>>         see .o file and .cfo file
>>
>> then when someone clicks on "see", they jump to the place in text 
>> where I
>> created the index marker. The index marker contains:
>>
>> absolute data file:<Emphasis>see <Default Para Font>.o file 
>> <Emphasis>and
>> <Default Para Font>.cfo file<$nopage>
>>
>> Ideally, this is what I'd like it to do in the PDF:
>> link on the words ".o file" and ".cfo file" instead of on "see".
>> jump to the index entries for ".o file" and ".cfo file"
>>
>> If we can't do that, I would settle for not having a link at all.
>>
>> This case is somewhat palatable because if you click on "see", at 
>> least it
>> takes you to somewhere that talks about .o files and .cfo files. 
>> However,
>> I have another reference entry for "manipulating" which points 
>> readers to
>> "changing", and since this is just a synonym and doesn't have a specifi
>> context, it's rather confusing when it jumps to "Breakpoint 
>> Manipulation".
>>
>> I'm using FrameMaker 7.2, the structured flavour (but I don't think that
>> makes any difference in this case), on Windows XP.
>>
>> Fei Min
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