I'm having the same issue. I upgraded to FM8, inherited some FM7 files with cross-book links. The output is all PDF. My xrefs nopw fail with "The file can not be found."
I turned on "Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs" and respun, no fix. Any other ideas? > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:framers- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 12:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Cross references not converting to PDF hyperlinks > > Thanks to Rebecca Officer and Fred Ridder for pointing me to the solution: > > On the Links tab of the PDF Setup dialog box, select the "Create Named > Destinations for All Paragraphs" check box. > > This increases my PDF file size by 27 percent, but now all the PDF links > work. > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi- > > > > I have a document that I've added a number of cross references to. I've > > noticed that while the cross references work properly within FrameMaker, > > clicking the hyperlink in the resulting PDF file does nothing: many > > hyperlinks are broken. > > > > Upon further testing, I think the problem might be that I've changed the > > destination paragraph tag after I created the cross reference. In other > > words, when I originally created the cross reference, the paragraph tag > was > > H1. The cross-reference marker text is "12345_H1:MyParaText." I've > kept > > that marker there, but changed the paragraph tag, say to H2. When I > > eliminated the cross-reference marker and added a new one, such that the > > marker text is "56789_H2:MyParaText," the hyperlink does work in the > > resulting PDF file. > > > > Is this indeed the source of the problem? Has anyone ever had this > > problem before? I've had mismatched paragraph tags and marker text > before > > without any problem, so this is surprising. I didn't know if it might > be > > related to the number of cross references. Is there a limit? > > > > This is a major problem for me. I've painstakingly added numerous cross > > references to make my Help system (and PDF files) more usable. > Hopefully, > > WebWorks will still produce the links properly, but I'm not sure that I > want > > to keep these faulty links in the PDF files. However, removing and > > reinserting markers for the paragraphs that changed tags would be > ominous. > > Worse, I now think that I can never change paragraph tags for a > paragraph > > that contains a cross-reference marker. That would be a nasty > limitation, > > one that makes cross references less useful. > > > > I'm using Frame 7.2p158 unstructured and Adobe Acrobat Distiller 8.1.2. > > Could this possibly be a problem with incompatibilities between Frame > 7.xand Distiller > > 8.x? > > > > Thanks for any insights. > > > > Doug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kmcdaniel%40pavtech. co > m > > Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
