FrameMaker Links to PDFs

[Theodore.Kostandin at vsea.com]

Shlomo,

Thanks! It works fine and is so simple. It has been quite awhile since I 
used hypertext commands in FrameMaker so I am very rusty. I was also 
having problems linking due to inconsistent usage of pathnames, which I 
have since resolved. All links are working now! 

Best regards!
Ted



Ted Kostandin
Senior Technical Writer
Email: theodore.kostandin at vsea.com
Phone: 978.463.5728




Shlomo Perets <shlomo2 at microtype.com> 
10/12/2007 03:12 AM

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Ted,

You wrote:

>Has anyone been able to insert a link in a FrameMaker document that after
>conversion to PDF will jump to another PDF that was previously created 
but
>not using FrameMaker? This method would not require linking with Acrobat
>so that you do not have to make new links in Acrobat when updating the
>Frame document.


To open a stand-alone PDF at the default opening page, use the following 
hypertext marker:
message openfile file.pdf

Additional link/bookmark options are available with the 
FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers add-on through custom markers -- see 
examples at "Define focused links to external PDFs or help files", 
http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF17.html


Shlomo Perets

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