Creating hyperlink to PDF

[Fetzner, Bill]

Update on this Frame-Acrobat problem. I visited Adobe.com and looked for a trial version of an update. While there, a nice sales lady invited me to chat, and not finding any other way to discuss this issue with any other Adobe employee, I took her up on it. Explained my problem, and after a wait of several minutes she came back that TCS2 is incompatible with Win7 and suggesting I update to TCS3. Rather than that, I asked her for assurance that I could run either Frame10 with TCS2 or Acrobat X with TCS2, and she said "aye" in both cases (I translated the "aye"). I downloaded a trial of Acrobat X, accepting its suggestion that it uninstall Acrobat 9 from my TCS2, then started testing. It seemed to work okay with TCS2 but haven't extensively tested that. What DID work was the links that wouldn't work when I generated a pdf from Frame before. Problem solved, or so it appears. Later, I found out that the pdf that lacked the valid links in Win7 would have them in another computer running XP and version 9.4.5 of Acrobat. It appears, therefore, that there is an incompatibility between Acrobat 9 running under Win7 such that message openfile links that it creates won't work under Win7, but will work under XP. Go figure. Thought someone might find some value in all of this. 
~ Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Reng, Dr. Winfried [mailto:wreng at tycoint.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:31 AM
To: Fetzner, Bill; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: AW: Creating hyperlink to PDF

Hi Bill,

Does the link work in FrameMaker (CTRL + ALT and then click on the link)? 
How do you create the PDF? If you print to a PostScript file or to a PDF, 
have you activated "Generate Acrobat Data"?

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] Im Auftrag von Fetzner, Bill
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011 16:54
> An: Shlomo Perets; Nina Rogers
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Betreff: RE: Creating hyperlink to PDF
> 
> All ~
> Searching my local Framers archives for a solution to my problem, I came up
> with this thread. I've been using the "message openfile hypertext marker for
> years with complete success. When I convert my doc to a pdf, the linkage
> worked just fine. But not in Windows 7 as far as I can determine. When I take
> exactly the same file, with exactly the same TCS2 newly installed in Win7, all
> those links are gone in my pdf distillation of the file. I've reinstalled Acrobat
> and updated it from itself without success. Anyone else experience this or
> have a suggestion of some magic switch I should know about?
> ~ Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Shlomo Perets
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:49 PM
> To: Nina Rogers
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Creating hyperlink to PDF
> 
> Nina,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> >I am trying to create a hyperlink to a PDF. Basically, when the user
> >clicks the link, I want a separate PDF file to open. I'm working in
> >FrameMaker 7, but the finished document will be published as a PDF.  ...
> >
> >The PDF I want to link is located in a folder on our network, not on a
> >website; otherwise, I'd use the Go to URL command from Special >
> >Hypertext.
> 
> 
> A generic link to an external PDF can be created using the built-in FM
> hypertext marker:
> message openfile path/filename.pdf
> 
> The target PDF will open at the default opening page; "new window" or
> "same
> window" applied according to the local Acrobat/Reader preference.
> 
> Other hypertext markers (gotolink/gotopage or openlink/openpage) can be
> translated to a similar link upon conversion to PDF, but link
> validity/success may be dependent on other factors (e.g. authoring
> application for the target PDF being FM, specific destinations/page numbers
> present, chapter vs. book file issues).
> 
> 
> Shlomo Perets
> 
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