[Framers] Embedding attachments in FM that remain attachments when PDF'd
David Artman
david at davidartman.com
Thu Aug 3 09:08:45 PDT 2017
Perhaps you could make your icons where you want them in FM with the
intention of *attaching* the (non-FM, non-PDF) files to the PDF
post-distillation. If you can figure out how a PDF attachment can be
referenced with a relative path--or, perhaps, as an anchor, like one
would do to have a URL call for a specific heading in the PDF?--then
you could have the FM URL 'point' to where the PDF attachments will
eventually 'live' in the final PDF. (Extra points if you can make the
FM icons+links Reference Page elements, for consistent reuse and
file-size efficiency!)
Sorry I cannot offer exact steps; I offer a map not a guidebook. :^)
EDIT: OK, it was not hard to find the first steps; refer to "Link to a
file attachment" on this page:
[1]https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/links-attachments-pdfs.html
Screenshot here:
[2]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYIazaIFHy4TXVLVl9HNmJCY0U/view?us
p=sharing
That takes the perspective of creating the link hotspot in Acrobat; but
that's just something you'd do once, pre-production, to get the URL for
use in an FM gotolink marker. As to HOW you'd see the underlying URL
for the (testing-use) hotspot, I have no idea. There must be some tool
that 'decompiles' a PDF so you can see the 'raw code' behind a link
hotspot, surely...? Alternately, if you have a relative few 'icons' in
the FM to link, you can make one hotspot per icon-PDF attachment
pairing and copy & paste them into place. Tedious, perhaps... but then
again, so is making an active PDF Form from FM without PDF TimeSavers!
;^)
Let us know what you resolve!
David
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Framers] Embedding attachments in FM that remain
attachments when PDF'd
From: John Posada <[3]jposada99 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, August 02, 2017 10:29 am
To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software."
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Hi, Steve...and everyone.
I have no issues with the process of placing the attachment somewhere
(in
our case, Share Point) and linking to it with a URL...I do hundreds of
these to files on SP and my issue isn't wanting to click an icon rather
than a link.
In this case, I didn't want to do a link of any type because where
these
types of files are kept is in a secure location and people won't get
in,
though these particular files are not restricted access due to
governance
approval. I wanted them carried along in and with the PDF to not worry
about access permissions.
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Steve Rickaby <
[5]srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> At 09:01 -0700 1/8/17, Monique Semp wrote:
>
> >What about just including an appropriate icon as an image (so the
Excel
> worksheet symbol, for example), and hyperlinking it to the external
file in
> the same way one would add a URL?
>
> I vaguely remember having done this in the past when I wanted to
emulate a
> web page in FrameMaker. From memory, using anchored frames I overlaid
the
> icon graphic with a transparent area of the same size and hyperlinked
the
> remote file to the transparent area.
>
> If this doesn't make sense, John, I'll dig out some files and try to
do a
> forensic drains-up on them.
>
> --
> Steve
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