Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Rick Quatro]

This is one of the benefits of TimeSavers: you can use pdfmark commands in
FrameMaker using markers instead of PostScript text frames. This avoids the
anchored frames and text frames. I have used and supported TimeSavers for
years and it is well worth the money.

 

You could go further and automate the insertion of the TimeSavers markers.
For example, if you had a spreadsheet of headings and help IDs, you could
use FrameScript (or ExtendScript with FrameMaker 10 or higher) to read the
spreadsheet and insert the IDs in the correct locations in your FrameMaker
document or book. This would make the whole process pretty seamless. Please
let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-283-5045

rick at frameexpert.com

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Johnson, Jennifer
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 2:31 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

 

Hi Peggy,

 

We use the following pdfmark command to embed help IDs into Frame documents.
Placing the destinations into the PDF itself is not an option for us because
the document is translated into 14 languages so we have to embed the named
destinations into the source Framemaker document. 

 

[/Dest/Help111/DEST pdfmark

 

Help111 is the dialog ID and named destination. There is no right bracket.

 

Create the line of code in a text frame within an anchored frame and
position it on the page that you want the pdf to open to when the user
presses the help button. 

 

Select the text frame, then choose Graphics > Object Properties and select
the PostScript Code check box. You won't be able to edit the code once you
tag it as PostScript, but you can turn the tag on and off.

 

Acrobat processes the codes into named destinations only when you print to
PDF. Save as PDF will not work. After you print to PDF, open your PDF, then
open the Destinations panel (you may have to select a View option to have
Acrobat display the Destinations panel  - a target icon that appears below
the bookmark icon). You will see many auto-generated destinations there,
sorted alphabetically, and be able to locate the named destinations you
created in Frame. 

 

Hope this helps. 

Jennifer

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers-frameusers.com/attachments/20130104/280969c5/attachment.htm>