Hyperlinks on images in structured FM9 -> PDF

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Gary,

 

Here are some things to check:

 

1) When you import the image, make sure it is selected and choose Graphics >
Runaround Properties, and select Don't Run Around.

 

2) Make sure you select the graphic and choose Graphics > Send to Back, to
make sure that it doesn't obscure any of the text frames.

 

3) When you create the text frames, make sure they are actually inside the
anchored frame and not directly on the page.  Temporarily add a paragraph or
two above the anchored frame to make sure that the text frames move with the
anchored frame. If they don't, select the text frames, cut them to the
clipboard, select the anchored frame, and then  paste the text frame inside
the anchored frame.

 

If you have a lot of these to create you may want to consider some scripting
help. For example, you could have a script that would prompt you for the
hotspot text as soon as you create the anchored frame. The script would then
insert the marker with the appropriate text. This would save you a couple of
steps in the process. Please let me know if you have any questions or
comments. Thank you very much.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

*** 585-283-5045 *** NEW NUMBER

rick at frameexpert.com

http://www.frameexpert.com

 

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Zimmerman, Gary
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:54 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Hyperlinks on images in structured FM9 -> PDF

 

Hi Framers,

 

I want to place many hyperlink hotspots on a large image in structured FM9,
to be published as a PDF file.  The image was originally drawn in Adobe
Illustrator and saved as a PDF, and is imported by reference to the
document.

 

I have managed to place hyperlink hotspots over my graphic using a text
frames containing an unstructured hypertext markers (gotolink markers on
image pointing to a newlink target marker where I want to link to go).

 

It works like a charm.  I click different parts of the graphic in the PDF to
jump to different parts of the document.

 

 

But there's a problem:  The image will be updated fairly regularly.  When I
tried updating the image, the hotspot links disappeared.  I had thought the
text frames were "in a different layer" of the FM document, so would persist
regardless of the image below them.  As long as the updated graphic was
pretty close to the original, I thought, the hotspots would stay in their
relative positions.  But alas, when I updated the image the hotspots were no
more.

 

The ultimate goal, if possible, is to have a LOT of hotspots on a large
graphic to use for document navigation.  I am forbidden from creating these
links using Acrobat on the generated PDF.  The linking mechanism must be in
the FM document itself so that we need not recreate the links manually any
time we generate a new PDF file.

 

Similarly, however, because there will be so many links on the graphic, it
would be impractical to manually recreate them all in the FM file every time
the graphic is updated.

 

Is there something I am doing wrong, or some other way to achieve what I
need - hotspot link areas that persist, even when the underlying graphic is
changed, or is this simply beyond the capabilities of FM9 for PDF output?  

 

Now that I think about it, if the graphic is changed, I don't know what the
hotspot/text frames would hold on to, so to speak.  I would want them to
move with the graphic, should pages or text be added or removed before the
graphic, causing the graphic to move in the document.  So maybe I'm going at
this the wrong way.  Our graphics are nested in the structure of the
document more or less like this:

 

Topic

...

Figure

  Graphic Container

   Graphic

...

 

where ... can be other elements within the Topic, like paragraphs, lists,
tables, etc.  I don't know if there would be any way to, say, have the
hotspots remain relative to the Figure or Graphic Container, so they persist
when the graphic file is updated and re-imported.

 

Thanks very much for any help or suggestions.

 

 

-- garyZ

 

 

 

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