Using PDF for context-sensitive help
obair at me.com
obair at me.com
Sat Jan 5 04:22:54 PST 2013
The "way" is the Timesavers plugin.
It works.
We used it for years at my former job.
Paul
On Dé hAoine, 4 Eanáir, 2013, at 13:10, "Johnson, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Johnson at Hypertherm.com> wrote:
> 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. ...
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