Can a PDF behave like context-sensitive help?

[Robert Lauriston]

No post-processing required. Insert a Hypertext marker with the
Specify Named Destination (newlink <linkname>) option, then use the
nameddest parameter in the URL:

www.adobe.com/.../pdfs/pdf_open_parameters_v9.pdf

If you want complete control of the nameddest string:

http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF14.html

If you want a mapping file, use redirects.

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Beverly Robinson
<beverly_robinson at datacard.com> wrote:
> I am using FrameMaker 12.0.2.389 and Acrobat 9.5.5 Pro Extended on a Windows
> 7 64-bit computer.
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> One of the projects I support would like to open a PDF User’s Guide from the
> user interface but, and here’s the catch, they want to open to the specific
> page of the PDF that applies to the page of the user interface. In other
> words, they want the PDF to act like context-sensitive HTML help. And I want
> it to be automatic. That is, I want to be able to insert markers in my .fm
> files that survive the PDF creation process and I want the software
> developers I work with to insert corresponding information in their code
> that will cause the PDF to open to the relevant page of the PDF.
>
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> A colleague vaguely remembers doing something like this at another company
> but thinks it was all post-processing after the PDF was created and that
> there was significant software developer effort involved at each release.
> That would not be acceptable.
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> In other words, I want something equivalent to a RoboHelp mapping file. Am I
> asking for the impossible? If this is possible, please point me to the
> topics in FrameMaker or Acrobat documentation that will get me started.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give,
>
> Beverly
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> P.S. Please copy me on replies. I’m on digest.
>
>
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