[Framers] Save as PDF

Peter Gold peter at petergold.photography
Sat Aug 19 16:45:31 PDT 2017


Thanks for the community-service alert, Austin.

Would it be useful/possible to incorporate this useful information about
the possibility of the problem reading the document on Chrome in or with
the document itself?

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Austin Meredith <kouroo at kouroo.info> wrote:

>    I use "Save as PDF" in FrameMaker 2015 unstructured, to create Adobe
>    Acrobat Pro DC documents, and put them on the web at "www . kouroo .
>    info". They work fine with the Internet Explorer browser. Recently,
>    however, the Google Chrome browser stopped working, in that when it is
>    now used to open one of my PDF documents, the links generated by
>    FrameMaker, such as gotoframefitwin /kouroo/webpage.fm, no longer
>    function.
>
>    Fortunately, there is a ready solution. There are now Google Chrome
>    browser extensions that teach the new Chrome to read Acrobat PDFs and
>    correctly interpret these FrameMaker links. There are a number of them,
>    free, at
>
>    [1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndcbldboieb
>    fnladdacbdfmadadm
>
>    and at
>
>    [2]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/pdf%20viewer?hl=en
>
>    The problem seems to be that Google has done this to its very latest
>    versions of Chrome without warning, that these new PDF extensions are
>    as yet very poorly documented and hard to find, and that most users who
>    rly on the fast Chrome browser as their interface to the internet have
>    no clue even that they exist or that something has gone wrong. When
>    they try to access one of my PDFs now, they complain bitterly "Hey,
>    Austin, damn it, your links are broken!" They are not warned what it is
>    that is really going wrong -- that there is something they now need to
>    install.
>
> References
>
>    1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/
> oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm
>    2. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/pdf viewer?hl=en
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