The "way" is the Timesavers plugin. It works.
We used it for years at my former job. Paul On D? hAoine, 4 Ean?ir, 2013, at 13:10, "Johnson, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Johnson at Hypertherm.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > We tried that and the named destination came through as > M8.newlink.helpid. We could find no good way to scrub the "M8.newlink." > out of the named destination without a 3rd party tool. > > Jennifer > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:20 PM > To: Johnson, Jennifer; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Using PDF for context-sensitive help > > I believe that pdfmark text frame approach was an old kludge to work > around the lack of a direct way to specify a named destination in > FrameMaker. > > Current best practice is to insert a Hypertext marker with the Specify > Named Destination (newlink <linkname>) option. > > Jennifer's source was apparently generating named destinations in > FrameMaker 7, so she should not have to do anything to make it work with > FrameMaker 9 other than adjust her PDF settings. > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Johnson, Jennifer > <Jennifer.Johnson at hypertherm.com> wrote: >> We use the following pdfmark command to embed help IDs into Frame > documents. >> Placing the destinations into the PDF itself is not an option for us >> because the document is translated into 14 languages so we have to >> embed the named destinations into the source Framemaker document. >> >> [/Dest/Help111/DEST pdfmark >> >> Help111 is the dialog ID and named destination. There is no right > bracket. >> >> Create the line of code in a text frame within an anchored frame and >> position it on the page that you want the pdf to open to when the user > >> presses the help button. ... > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as obair at me.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/obair%40me.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
