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<font face="Verdana">Hi Lin...<br>
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Note that there are a few settings in DITA-FMx that enable
hypertext in a PDF.<br>
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First, in the main DITA Options dialog, there's an "Add Hypertext
Markers to External Xrefs" option. This is for
xref/@scope="external" xrefs .. links to URLs or content outside
of the scope of the DITA files. You probably want this to be
enabled.<br>
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Then, in the Book Build Settings dialog (button in the Options
dialog), there's the "Convert Xrefs/Links into Hyperlinks" option.
Also probably want this enabled. There's a difference between
xrefs and fm-xrefs. Xrefs are "DITA" cross-refs that are just
plain text links .. no formatting. If you want these to be
clickable in a PDF, you must enable the option. Fm-xrefs are
"FrameMaker" cross-refs which make use of FrameMaker's formatted
references .. these will become clickable links in PDFs by
default. Both are stored as xref elements in the underlying DITA
file, but the fm-xrefs convert when open in FM.<br>
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You may want to use the dita-fmx-users Yahoo group for DITA-FMx
related questions.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
...scott<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.leximation.com">www.leximation.com</a>
+1.415.485.1892
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On 7/12/12 2:21 PM, Lin Sims wrote:
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<pre wrap="">And, of course, as soon as I sent this I remembered: the hotspot works
up until the point in the text where you've added a character tag or
something that changes the format. Now, that's in unstructured, but
I'm wondering if they've wrapped the part where the link breaks in
another element or something. I shall be investigating more
tomorrow....
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Lin Sims <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ljsims.ml@gmail.com"><ljsims.ml@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I think I've discovered (at least part of) the issue.
The links are actually there. What's happening is that instead of the
PDF hotspot covering the entirety of the text being wrapped in the
xref or fm-xref tag, it's forming as a little tiny spot to the left of
the visible text. I suspect this is the same thing that happens with
xrefs to table footnotes, although at the moment I'm not remembering
the why.
Tomorrow I'm going to take a look at the files this is happening in to
see if my coworkers are using the same elements in cases where it
works versus where it doesn't work, whether the attributes are
different, etc. I'm pretty new to structured Frame/DITA in general, so
digging into this ought to be fun. :)
HOWEVER!!! If anyone has already seen this issue and knows the cause
and a fix, feel free to let me know. I love to figure things out, but
I hate reinventing the wheel! (Meantime, off to Google!)
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Lin Sims <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ljsims.ml@gmail.com"><ljsims.ml@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Has Adobe added a tool for finding broken links in a PDF yet? If so,
where is it? One of my coworkers is looking at a document that is
umpty-pages long with even umptier numbers of links. It just isn't
possible to find and click all of them to see if they all work, and
work as intended. As I recall, the lack of a tool like this has been a
long-standing issue with Acrobat, and I was kinda hoping they'd fixed
it by now.
(For reference, the files are structured FrameMaker being saved as PDF
from a book file created using Leximation's DITA-FMx plugin, and it's
Adobe Acrobat X.)
Thanks,
--
Lin Sims
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