newlinks and gotolinks in Acrobat

[Rick Quatro]

Hello Framers,

A client uncovered a problem that I was previously not aware of. If you
insert matching newlink and gotolink markers in a document, and you
Control+Alt+Click on the gotolink marker, FrameMaker will jump to the
newlink marker as you would expect. However, after you make the PDF, the
link no longer goes to the location of the named destination created by the
newlink marker, but it goes to the named destination of the paragraph
containing the marker. In most cases, you won't notice it, but if the
paragraph starts on a different page than the marker location, then it
becomes a problem.

Interestingly, a named destination for the newlink marker is created in the
PDF, but the link does not point to that destination; it points to the named
destination for the paragraph, which is at the start of the paragraph.

Frankly, I am dumbfounded by this behavior. I tested it in FrameMaker 8 and
10 and it works the same. It looks like a case of Adobe trying to "help",
but for this client, it makes these links unusable in many cases.

If you are having trouble visualizing what I am talking about, you can
download a sample PDF at

http://www.rickquatro.com/resources/LinkTest.pdf

or a zip file containing both the FrameMaker file and PDF:

http://www.rickquatro.com/resources/LinkTest.zip


Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
585-219-8959 fax
rick at frameexpert.com
http://www.frameexpert.com