FM 8: Turn on hyperlinks in URLs

[Fred Ridder]

How are you generating your PDF? Are you printing to a PostScript file and then distilling as per Robert Lauriston's recommended workaround for your missing Adobe PDF printer issue?

If so, the key step he didn't mention is to make sure that the "Generate Acrobat Data" option in the Print Book dialog is selected. The "Acrobat data" this option is talking about includes bookmarks, hyperlinks for ToC entries and cross-references, and functioning hypertext commands like links to URLs. When you print to a physical printer, none of that data is included in the PostScript because it's meaningless to the output device. And if the data is not in the PostScript, there's no way for the associated links to work in the PDF. So when you're generating a PostScript file specifically to distill into PDF, you need to tell FrameMaker to include the link data.

-Fred Ridder

From: TechSubs at VibrantLivingMinistries.org
To: Framers at Lists.FrameUsers.com
Subject: FM 8:  Turn on hyperlinks in URLs
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:16:59 -0700

Greetings everyone! I created a book containing a large number of hyperlinks, as text. (E.g., http://destination.com/). These are not coming through in PDF as active links. I do need them to look like normal URLs, and also be active links in PDF. Would someone be willing to tell me how to do set these links up to achieve this outcome? Using FM 8, Win 7 x64, Acrobat XI. Thanks very much!Elchanan
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