What you describe is completely consistent with the way Acrobat's implicit
hyperlink feature ("Create links from URLs") works. If this preference item is
enabled in Acrobat's Preferences dialog (General page), Acrobat treats anything
that looks like a URL (e.g., any string that begins with "HTTP:" or "HTTPS:")
as if it's a hyperlink. This feature usually works OK if the URL is all on one
line but falls on its face if the URL is split across two (or more) lines
because as far as Acrobat can tell the line feed constitutes a whitespace
character that delimits the URL string.
The proper way to handle URLs in FrameMaker is to explicitly code them in the
source files with hypertext markers. With that mechanism the marker explicitly
contains the actual URL (which does not need to exactly match what appear in
the text of the document), and the string in the text that serves as the active
link (i.e. the hot spot) is explicitly delimited by a character style that you
apply. (If you don't apply the character style, the hot spot extends from the
marker itself to the end of the paragraph, which is generally not desirable.)
In practice the actual process is simpler than it sounds, but if you need the
actual steps I can write them up for you.
Yes, it's much easier to do nothing in the source file and let Distiller do all
the work for you, but Distiller has no ability to mind-read your intentions
when a URL doesn't fit the pattern it knows to interpret as a URL.
-FR
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From: Framers <[email protected]> on
behalf of Mikey Shine <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Framers] Hyperlinks
Some of my url links are not being created correctly when creating a PDF from
Frame. Most often, this seems to happen if/when a url is split across two lines
of text but this is not always the case. Does anyone know of a way to prevent
this from happening?
Also is anyone aware of a good software that would check all hyperlinks within
a PDF and generate some sort of report broken links?
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