Perhaps you could make your icons where you want them in FM with the intention of *attaching* the (non-FM, non-PDF) files to the PDF post-distillation. If you can figure out how a PDF attachment can be referenced with a relative path--or, perhaps, as an anchor, like one would do to have a URL call for a specific heading in the PDF?--then you could have the FM URL 'point' to where the PDF attachments will eventually 'live' in the final PDF. (Extra points if you can make the FM icons+links Reference Page elements, for consistent reuse and file-size efficiency!)
Sorry I cannot offer exact steps; I offer a map not a guidebook. :^) EDIT: OK, it was not hard to find the first steps; refer to "Link to a file attachment" on this page: [1]https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/links-attachments-pdfs.html Screenshot here: [2]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYIazaIFHy4TXVLVl9HNmJCY0U/view?us p=sharing That takes the perspective of creating the link hotspot in Acrobat; but that's just something you'd do once, pre-production, to get the URL for use in an FM gotolink marker. As to HOW you'd see the underlying URL for the (testing-use) hotspot, I have no idea. There must be some tool that 'decompiles' a PDF so you can see the 'raw code' behind a link hotspot, surely...? Alternately, if you have a relative few 'icons' in the FM to link, you can make one hotspot per icon-PDF attachment pairing and copy & paste them into place. Tedious, perhaps... but then again, so is making an active PDF Form from FM without PDF TimeSavers! ;^) Let us know what you resolve! David -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Framers] Embedding attachments in FM that remain attachments when PDF'd From: John Posada <[3]jposad...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, August 02, 2017 10:29 am To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software." <[4]framers@lists.frameusers.com> Hi, Steve...and everyone. I have no issues with the process of placing the attachment somewhere (in our case, Share Point) and linking to it with a URL...I do hundreds of these to files on SP and my issue isn't wanting to click an icon rather than a link. In this case, I didn't want to do a link of any type because where these types of files are kept is in a secure location and people won't get in, though these particular files are not restricted access due to governance approval. I wanted them carried along in and with the PDF to not worry about access permissions. On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Steve Rickaby < [5]srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote: > At 09:01 -0700 1/8/17, Monique Semp wrote: > > >What about just including an appropriate icon as an image (so the Excel > worksheet symbol, for example), and hyperlinking it to the external file in > the same way one would add a URL? > > I vaguely remember having done this in the past when I wanted to emulate a > web page in FrameMaker. From memory, using anchored frames I overlaid the > icon graphic with a transparent area of the same size and hyperlinked the > remote file to the transparent area. > > If this doesn't make sense, John, I'll dig out some files and try to do a > forensic drains-up on them. > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [6]framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at [7]http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at [8]http://www.mail-archive.com/ > framers%[9]40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at [10]http://lists.frameusers.com/ > listinfo.cgi/[11]framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to [12]listad...@frameusers.com > -- John Posada Rock portfolio: [13]http://www.actionremembered.com/musicportfolio Twitter: @rockbandphotos _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [14]framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at [15]http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at [16]http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at [17]http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [18]listad...@frameusers.com References 1. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/links-attachments-pdfs.html 2. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYIazaIFHy4TXVLVl9HNmJCY0U/view?usp=sharing 3. mailto:jposad...@gmail.com 4. mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com 5. mailto:srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk 6. mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com 7. http://www.frameusers.com/ 8. http://www.mail-archive.com/ 9. http://40lists.frameusers.com/ 10. http://lists.frameusers.com/ 11. http://framers-frameusers.com/ 12. mailto:listad...@frameusers.com 13. http://www.actionremembered.com/musicportfolio 14. mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com 15. http://www.frameusers.com/ 16. http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com 17. http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com 18. mailto:listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
