Rick,
You wrote:
A client uncovered a problem that I was previously not aware of. If you
insert matching newlink and gotolink markers in a document, and you
Control+Alt+Click on the gotolink marker, FrameMaker will jump to the
newlink marker as you would expect. However, after you make the PDF, the
link no longer goes to the location of the named destination created by the
newlink marker, but it goes to the named destination of the paragraph
containing the marker. In most cases, you won't notice it, but if the
paragraph starts on a different page than the marker location, then it
becomes a problem.
Interestingly, a named destination for the newlink marker is created in the
PDF, but the link does not point to that destination; it points to the named
destination for the paragraph, which is at the start of the paragraph.
Frankly, I am dumbfounded by this behavior. I tested it in FrameMaker 8 and
10 and it works the same. It looks like a case of Adobe trying to "help",
but for this client, it makes these links unusable in many cases.
If you are having trouble visualizing what I am talking about, you can
download a sample PDF at
http://www.rickquatro.com/resources/LinkTest.pdf
or a zip file containing both the FrameMaker file and PDF:
http://www.rickquatro.com/resources/LinkTest.zip
The behavior you accurately describe can be indeed seen in the PS file
created from a FrameMaker file; it is very likely "hard-coded" with no way
to control or change it in FrameMaker.
If this client uses the FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers add-on, a custom
hypertext marker can link to the specified named destination rather than to
the automatically-generated paragraph ID.
The following definition should be added to the TS-custom.ini file:
/~NamedDestLink %% link to a named destination in the same PDF
% use: alert ~NamedDestLink /destination
{ TS_LinkProps /A /GoTo /Dest [ } { (n) ( /Subtype /Link /ANN )
TS_Validate }
TS-Shortcut %%%
And then pairs such as the following would achieve the direct linking to
the destination:
newlink TMS linkname456
alert ~NamedDestLink /linkname456
Ctrl-Alt-clicking the link in FrameMaker will not go to the destination
(but only display the marker text), but you will see the expected result in
the PDF.
Shlomo Perets
MicroType, http://www.microtype.com
FrameMaker/TCS training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat Advanced Techniques *
FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants
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