Using PDF for context-sensitive help

[Johnson, Jennifer]

Hi Robert,

We tried that and the named destination came through as
M8.newlink.helpid. We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink."
out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool.

Jennifer 



-----Original Message-----
From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:20 PM
To: Johnson, Jennifer; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help

I believe that pdfmark text frame approach was an old kludge to work
around the lack of a direct way to specify a named destination in
FrameMaker.

Current best practice is to insert a Hypertext marker with the Specify
Named Destination (newlink <linkname>) option.

Jennifer's source was apparently generating named destinations in
FrameMaker 7, so she should not have to do anything to make it work with
FrameMaker 9 other than adjust her PDF settings.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Johnson, Jennifer
<Jennifer.Johnson at hypertherm.com> wrote:
> 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. ...