Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[obair at me.com]

Install and set up the Timesavers plugin.

Embed your screen help IDs in the relevant places in your Frame file.  They must be the same help ID for the the relevant screen in the app.

When you make your PDF directly from frame, the plugin will keep acrobat from changing your help IDs.  

Your developlers will have to code the app so that a help call will use the help ID in the screen to call the PDF file and the right help ID  "Named Destination".

I and the software folks at a former job set this up.  Works beautifully.

best,
Paul

On Déardaoin, 3 Eanáir, 2013, at 09:38, "Harvey, Peggy" <Peggy_Harvey at alliedtelesis.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. I’ve come into a situation where I need to maintain an online help system that uses a PDF document as the target. When you click a Help button in a dialog box it’s supposed to bring up a particular page (or go to a particular heading) in the PDF – not just open the PDF on page 1. Does anyone know how this might be done? The PDF is created from FrameMaker so I’m assuming there must be markers in the FrameMaker files somewhere but I can’t find them, or I’m not sure what to look for. The person who created this system isn’t here anymore so I’m trying to figure out what he did to make this work. When it worked the PDF was created from FrameMaker 7; I’m using FrameMaker 9. It appears all of the Help buttons in the product are broken now – they open up the PDF file I created in FM 9 but only to the first page, so they aren’t context-sensitive anymore. I don’t know if upgrading to FM 9 made a difference here or not.
>  
> I know using PDF for context-sensitive help isn’t ideal – that’s a different story.
>  
> Thanks for your help –
>  
> Peggy
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