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

[Fred Ridder]

Paul,

Are you certain that the misbehaving links are coded in the FrameMaker source as hypertext Go to URL commands with the complete address? If not, you may be seeing one of the shortcomings of the links that Acrobat automatically creates after the fact as it parses the PDF. Acrobat is smart enough to do basic pattern matching to identify strings that start with http: or that have an @ in the middle as URLs and e-mail addresses. But it is *not* smart enough to look past the end of the current line to see if there are any additional characters that are the completion of the URL or address. 

-Fred Ridder

 
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:58:17 -0700
> From: obair at me.com
> To: shlomo.perets at microtype.com
> Subject: Re: Frame x-refs that wrap and work fine do not work in PDF
> CC: framers at frameusers.com; frame2acrobat at yahoogroups.com
> 
> You refer below to "having multiple hypertext markers in the same paragraph."
> 
> This is not related to that. This happens even when the link is the only one in the graph. The issue happens when the link wraps to the second line.
> 
> With that information in mind, do you still think that this is tied to the TimeSavers setting of "Ignore duplicate 
> >markers" (Links/General tab, under Advanced)?
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at 12:41AM, "Shlomo Perets" <shlomo.perets at microtype.com> wrote:
> >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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