Finding broken links in a PDF (An Update!)

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Lin...

Note that there are a few settings in DITA-FMx that enable hypertext in 
a PDF.

First, in the main DITA Options dialog, there's an "Add Hypertext 
Markers to External Xrefs" option. This is for xref/@scope="external" 
xrefs .. links to URLs or content outside of the scope of the DITA 
files. You probably want this to be enabled.

Then, in the Book Build Settings dialog (button in the Options dialog), 
there's the "Convert Xrefs/Links into Hyperlinks" option. Also probably 
want this enabled. There's a difference between xrefs and fm-xrefs. 
Xrefs are "DITA" cross-refs that are just plain text links .. no 
formatting. If you want these to be clickable in a PDF, you must enable 
the option. Fm-xrefs are "FrameMaker" cross-refs which make use of 
FrameMaker's formatted references .. these will become clickable links 
in PDFs by default. Both are stored as xref elements in the underlying 
DITA file, but the fm-xrefs convert when open in FM.

You may want to use the dita-fmx-users Yahoo group for DITA-FMx related 
questions.

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892



On 7/12/12 2:21 PM, Lin Sims wrote:
> 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,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lin Sims
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lin Sims
>
>
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