<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks, Shlomo. I was actually concerned about how to turn it off. The help provided no help in the matter, and poking around Acrobat made me none the wiser.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Cheers,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Nadine<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Shlomo Perets <shlomo2@microtype.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Writer
<generic668@yahoo.ca> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Theresa de Valence <TdeV@bstw.com>; framers@lists.frameusers.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:58:49 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Hypertext?<br> </font> </div> <br>Nadine,<br><br>You wrote:<br><br>> If you only need to output to PDF, I don't think you need to do anything. I ran a quick test with FM 9/Acrobat Pro 8, and Acrobat Pro automatically recognized the text in the FM file as an email address (although, I can't find how to prevent it from doing this). You might want to give the address a character tag in FM to make it look like a link.<br><br><br>Inserting a hypertext marker, as described by Rick Quatro and Syed Zaeem Hosain, which results in an Acrobat link, is recommended.<br><br>When you don't insert the marker, you may still see what looks like a link,
because of the Acrobat/Reader feature of detecting links in the content (Edit>Preferences, General; in versions 8/9/X it is called "Create Links from URLs", in version 7 "Automatically detect URLs from text").<br><br>This detection has some limitations, depending on the Acrobat/Reader version used by your end users; it is not available with Reader versions earlier than 7 (and may also also not be available in non-Adobe PDF viewers)<br><br>To have fully-functional e-mail links in all versions of Reader, I recommend adding hypertext links in FrameMaker, so that "real" e-mail links are present in the PDF (and not relying on auto-detected ones).<br><br><br>Shlomo Perets<br><br>MicroType, <a href="http://www.microtype.com" target="_blank">http://www.microtype.com</a><br>FrameMaker/TCS training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants <br><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>