If it's useful in the help, why is it not useful in the PDF? I don't get it.
I'd say you're migrating the source from RoboHelp to FrameMaker. I have PDF and OLH conditions defined in my user guide / online help FrameMaker source. Things I want only in the PDF use the PDF condition, things I want only in the online help use the OLH condition. My build script automatically sets the conditions for each output. I actually use those conditions in only one paragraph of a ~900-page document, where I'm giving people instructions on how to navigate a reference chapter with ~400 entries using the bookmarks in the PDF or the TOC in the online help. If I could put context-sensitive links in the relevant part of the application I wouldn't need those conditions at all. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Steve Whalley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks for your response. To explain: we're not migrating anything, we're > trying to mimic the presentation of the help we currently have (created > directly with RoboHelp 9) in new single-source documents created using FM10 > (for PDF output) then 'transformed' via RoboHelp 9 to produce the help > output. So, in the PDF output we do not want to include the 'For more > information see' references to help topics (which is what these links are). > > Regards - Steve > > Steve Whalley > Technical Author > KSS Fuels > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: 28 January 2013 18:51 > To: Steve Whalley; [email protected] > Subject: Re: TCS3.5 > FM10 to RoboHelp: Handling 'more info' help links in FM > original > > I have TCS 3.5, save as PDF from FrameMaker 10, and generate WebHelp with > RoboHelp 9. I have the same "see <cross-reference>" links in PDF and WebHelp, > the only difference is that RoboHelp suppresses the page numbers. > > It's not clear to me what you're trying to do. > > "Currently have" makes it sound like you're migrating from something to FM10. > What? > > Why do you want the links to be conditional text? > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Steve Whalley <[email protected]> wrote: >> We’re in the process of starting to use FM10 (as part of Adobe TCS3.5) >> to create user guides and (via TCS3.5 > RoboHelp 9) online help. One >> concern we have is, in FrameMaker, how to handle a ‘For more >> information see:’ list of links to other related help topics we >> currently have at the bottom of each help topic. The only way I can >> think of is to include a ‘For more information see:’ section in the FM >> template and deploy that (suitably completed and conditionally text-tagged) >> at the end of each perceived ‘help’ >> section in the FM file. _______________________________________________ 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.
