Finding broken links in a PDF (An Update!)

[Lin Sims]

I think I've discovered (at least part of) the issue.

The links are actually there. What's happening is that instead of the
PDF hotspot covering the entirety of the text being wrapped in the
xref or fm-xref tag, it's forming as a little tiny spot to the left of
the visible text. I suspect this is the same thing that happens with
xrefs to table footnotes, although at the moment I'm not remembering
the why.

Tomorrow I'm going to take a look at the files this is happening in to
see if my coworkers are using the same elements in cases where it
works versus where it doesn't work, whether the attributes are
different, etc. I'm pretty new to structured Frame/DITA in general, so
digging into this ought to be fun. :)

HOWEVER!!! If anyone has already seen this issue and knows the cause
and a fix, feel free to let me know. I love to figure things out, but
I hate reinventing the wheel! (Meantime, off to Google!)


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has Adobe added a tool for finding broken links in a PDF yet? If so,
> where is it? One of my coworkers is looking at a document that is
> umpty-pages long with even umptier numbers of links. It just isn't
> possible to find and click all of them to see if they all work, and
> work as intended. As I recall, the lack of a tool like this has been a
> long-standing issue with Acrobat, and I was kinda hoping they'd fixed
> it by now.
>
> (For reference, the files are structured FrameMaker being saved as PDF
> from a book file created using Leximation's DITA-FMx plugin, and it's
> Adobe Acrobat X.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Lin Sims



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Lin Sims