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<div><font color="maroon"><b>Hi Framers,</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>I want to place </b><b>many </b><b>hyperlink hotspots on a</b><b> large</b><b> image in structured FM9, to be published as a PDF file. </b><b>The image was originally drawn in Adobe Illu</b><b>strator and saved as a PDF, and is
imported by reference to the document.</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>I have managed to place hyperlink hotspot</b><b>s</b><b> over my graphic using a text frame</b><b>s</b><b> containing an unstructured hypertext marker</b><b>s</b><b> (gotolink marker</b><b>s</b><b> on image pointing to a newlink
target marker where I want to link to go).</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>It works like a charm. </b><b>I click different parts of the graphic </b><b>in the PDF to jump to different parts of the document.</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>But there's a problem: T</b><b>he </b><b>image </b><b>will be </b><b>updated fairly regularly. </b><b>When I </b><b>tried updating the image, </b><b>the hotspot links disappeared. I had thought </b><b>the text frames were "in
a different layer" of the FM document, so would persist</b><b> regardless of the image below them. As long as </b><b>the updated </b><b>graphic </b><b>was pretty close to the original, </b><b>I thought, </b><b>the hotspots would stay in their relative positions.
But alas, when I updated the image the hotspots were no more.</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>The ultimate goal, if possible, is to have a LOT of hotspots on a large graphic to use for document navigation. </b><b>I am forbidden from </b><b>creat</b><b>ing</b><b> these links using Acrobat on the generated PDF</b><b>. T</b><b>he
</b><b>linking </b><b>mechanism must be in the FM document itself so that we need not recreate the links manually any time we generate a new PDF file.</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>Similarly, however, because there will be so many links on the graphic, it would be impractical to manually recreate them all in the FM file every time the graphic is updated.</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>Is there something I am doing wrong, or some other way to achieve what I need</b><b> - hotspot link areas that persist, even when the underlying graphic is changed</b><b>, or is this simply beyond the capabilities of FM9 for PDF
output?</b><b> </b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>Now that I think about it, if the graphic is </b><b>changed, I don't know what the </b><b>hotspot/text frames</b><b> would hold on to, so to speak. I would want them to move with the graphic, should pages or text be added or removed</b><b>
</b><b>before </b><b>the graphic, causing the graphic to move in the document. So maybe I'm going at this the wrong way. Our graphics are nested in the structure of the document more or less like this:</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>Topic</b></font></div>
<div><font color="maroon"><b>...</b></font></div>
<div><font color="maroon"><b> Figure</b></font></div>
<div><font color="maroon"><b> </b><b>Graphic Container</b></font></div>
<div><font color="maroon"><b> Graphic</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>where ... can be other elements within the Topic, like paragraphs, lists, tables, etc.</b><b> I don't know if there would be any way to, say, have the hotspots remain relative to the Figure or Graphic Container, so they persist
when the </b><b>graphic file is updated and re-imported.</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>Thanks very much</b><b> for any help or suggestions</b><b>.</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="maroon"><b>-- garyZ</b></font></div>
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