The lock/unlock approach to enabling PDF links in text insets is one way
to go. But I note in your email that you are using Structured Frame.
This means that you could use a free utility from West Street Consulting
called InsetsPlus. With InsetsPlus, this problem goes away. I recommend
it and
Hi Jasmine,
This is a known issue with FrameMaker/Acrobat. I have a FrameScript script
that allows you to unlock the text insets before creating the PDF, which
effectively solves the link problem in the resulting PDF. After you create
the PDF, the script relocks the text insets. (The ability to
Thanks to all who responded. My apologies for missing the previous thread in
April with related information about this issue.
Thanks to Richard Combs for the manual workaround and to Rick for info about
FrameScript options. I will consider these further if it turns out that the
I've used this script from for a couple of years now on several different
projects. It works great.
Just an unsolicited testimonial from a satisfied customer.
~
Linda G. Gallagher
TechCom Plus, LLC
lindag at techcomplus dot com
www.techcomplus.com
303-450-9076 or
Ditto!
Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
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Jasmine,
Probably not the desired option, but you could try importing the text insets
into the document instead of by reference.
There has been other activity here on this subject. You might want to search
the archives and see what developed from those earlier queries.
--- On Wed, 7/21/10,
There was a thread back in April that talked about this: Cross-references and
text insets.
From that I learned that you can't do this manually, but, this solution was
proffered:
Hi,
Just to let you know, I do have a FrameScript solution that makes the
cross-references work in the PDFs.
Graham, Jasmine S wrote:
Structured Frame 8.0 (TCS1), XP, importing procedures written in text
insets into multiple books. I found today that any cross-references within
the text insets are not getting picked up as active cross-references in the
book PDF. Any other normal X-REFs are working
