Cross references not converting to PDF hyperlinks

[Kelly McDaniel]

I'm having the same issue.

I upgraded to FM8, inherited some FM7 files with cross-book links. The
output is all PDF. My xrefs nopw fail with "The file can not be found."

I turned on "Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs" and respun,
no fix.

Any other ideas?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Doug
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:07 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Cross references not converting to PDF hyperlinks
> 
> Thanks to Rebecca Officer and Fred Ridder for pointing me to the
solution:
> 
> On the Links tab of the PDF Setup dialog box, select the "Create Named
> Destinations for All Paragraphs" check box.
> 
> This increases my PDF file size by 27 percent, but now all the PDF
links
> work.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Doug <dougsfwriter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi-
> >
> > I have a document that I've added a number of cross references to.
I've
> > noticed that while the cross references work properly within
FrameMaker,
> > clicking the hyperlink in the resulting PDF file does nothing:  many
> > hyperlinks are broken.
> >
> > Upon further testing, I think the problem might be that I've changed
the
> > destination paragraph tag after I created the cross reference.  In
other
> > words, when I originally created the cross reference, the paragraph
tag
> was
> > H1.  The cross-reference marker text is "12345_H1:MyParaText."  I've
> kept
> > that marker there, but changed the paragraph tag, say to H2.  When I
> > eliminated the cross-reference marker and added a new one, such that
the
> > marker text is "56789_H2:MyParaText," the hyperlink does work in the
> > resulting PDF file.
> >
> > Is this indeed the source of the problem?  Has anyone ever had this
> > problem before?  I've had mismatched paragraph tags and marker text
> before
> > without any problem, so this is surprising.  I didn't know if it
might
> be
> > related to the number of cross references.  Is there a limit?
> >
> > This is a major problem for me.  I've painstakingly added numerous
cross
> > references to make my Help system (and PDF files) more usable.
> Hopefully,
> > WebWorks will still produce the links properly, but I'm not sure
that I
> want
> > to keep these faulty links in the PDF files.  However, removing and
> > reinserting markers for the paragraphs that changed tags would be
> ominous.
> > Worse, I now think that I can never change paragraph tags for a
> paragraph
> > that contains a cross-reference marker.  That would be a nasty
> limitation,
> > one that makes cross references less useful.
> >
> > I'm using Frame 7.2p158 unstructured and Adobe Acrobat Distiller
8.1.2.
> > Could this possibly be a problem with incompatibilities between
Frame
> 7.xand Distiller
> > 8.x?
> >
> > Thanks for any insights.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
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