newlinks and gotolinks in Acrobat

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi Rick,

Could it be that FrameMaker uses the character format
of the marker to set the destination? If the character format
is the same as the paragraph, then the whole paragraph
is the destination.

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:17 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: newlinks and gotolinks in Acrobat
> 
> 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
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