Finding broken links in a PDF (An Update!)

[Lin Sims]

And, of course, as soon as I sent this I remembered: the hotspot works
up until the point in the text where you've added a character tag or
something that changes the format. Now, that's in unstructured, but
I'm wondering if they've wrapped the part where the link breaks in
another element or something. I shall be investigating more
tomorrow....

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
>>
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>> Lin Sims
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> Lin Sims



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