PDF setup for LOF links

[Lester C. Smalley]

Art is correct about needing to reference a tag that precedes the image
so that the links from the LOF display the target page properly in the
PDF.  We actually were able to convince a client to change their style
to present the title above the image, but as your client rejected that,
you need to handle it differently.

Rene, you don't say how you have the figures inserted in the document,
but if you already use an "anchor" format then Art's answer may be the
best solution if your figure titles are autonumbered  But instead of
setting the anchor paragraph to white, I would set it to a color defined
as invisible (see View > Color Views) to ensure it does not print.
White text may still be seen/selected in the PDF, and I doubt you want
that.

If the titles are not autonumbered (which I certainly do not recommend),
then I would just use the existing Figure Title paragraph and include a
few soft returns.  Place the image below the first line of the paragraph
(otherwise empty save the soft return), and enter the title as you
currently do after the image.  When you generate the LOF, you will just
need to delete the soft returns from the extracted text, which can
easily be automated even through FM's find tool - just be sure to leave
the hypertext marker!

On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 21:31, Art Campbell wrote:
 
| I always use an Anchor tag of some kind to hold the figure's anchored
| frame and have the properties set to Below the Current Line (of the
| Anchor tag).  The Anchor tag usually doesn't have any text.
| 
| To solve your problem, you could either set the Anchor tag up with
| text that mirrors the Figure Title text, or maybe cross-refs to it.
| Or, probably better, set the Figure Title to cross-ref to the Anchor
| text string. Set the Anchor font to white, so it doesn't show.
| 
| Don't make any changes to your Figure Titles.
| 
| Then create your LOF using the Anchor tags as your targets instead of
| the Figure Titles.
| 
| Art
| 
| On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Rene Stephenson <rinnie1 at yahoo.com>
| wrote:
| > Hi All,
| >
| > I'm using FM 7.2 (unstructured) with Acrobat 7.0 on WinXP SP-2.
| >
| > Our process is: FM generates the LOF from the Figure Title paragraph
| formats, and then we print the book to PS with Adobe PDF printer
| instance, which we double-click to distill to PDF.
| >
| > In the resulting PDF, whenever you click a link in the LOF, the PDF
| page displays with the Figure Title at the top of the window.
| Great...except that our captions follow the figures...so the figure
| title shows, but the figure itself requires scrolling back up the page
| to see.  I had proposed the (potentially offensive to some tech
| writers) alternative of the caption leading the figure rather than
| following it, but that solution was refused by the client, for various
| reasons. (Bummer...that could have been a quick scripted fix...)
| >
| > I don't think Acrobat can distinguish between paragraph formats, and
| I don't think it considers a graphic that has callouts as a single
| entity but rather as a composite of graphics and text-and this is as
it
| should be for most and advanced applications, such as when we link
| between callouts and content relevant to the callout-so I can't think
| of a way to tell Acrobat to 'go to" the point preceding the paragraph
| of the link pointer. (Does that even make sense...?)
| >
| > I tried fiddling with the anchored frame by placing it in the Figure
| Title, but I couldn't come up with a way to get it to insert in the
| paragraph and display above the insertion point.
| >
| > What am I missing?
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Rene L. Stephenson
| 
| --
| Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
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| and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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- Lester 
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