Frame x-refs that wrap and work fine do not work in PDF

[Shlomo Perets]

Paul,

You wrote:

>I am just after noticing that, in my PDFs, links that wrap and go to a 
>second line are not active in the part of the link that is on the second line.
>The start of the link, on the first line, works fine.
>All x-refs that wrap in Frame work fine in Frame.
>I never saw this behavior before in a PDF made from a Frame file.
>Does anyone have any guess as to why this is happening?
>Thanks.
>I am using timesavers and IXgen, in case it matters.


Yes, this is related to the TimeSavers setting of "Ignore duplicate 
markers" (Links/General tab, under Advanced).

Occasionally FrameMaker processes a single hypertext marker twice or more 
(this can be clearly seen in the PS file, or if you convert to PDF, with or 
without TimeSavers).

Other than turning on "Ignore duplicate markers", you can suppress 
duplicate features by selecting the hypertext marker only and applying a 
character property or format to it. Depending on your use for hypertext 
markers, another option is to avoid having multiple hypertext markers in 
the same paragraph.

[ Note: suppressing the cross-reference link made sense in conjunction with 
the "Side Links" feature, where a clickable symbol replaces the active 
area, and only one symbol is needed even when the cross-reference is split 
between two lines, see
http://www.microtype.com/showcase/NavigationAsst/SideLinks1.pdf or 
http://www.microtype.com/showcase/NavigationAsst/SideLinks2.pdf ]



Shlomo Perets

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