Re: Finding broken links in a PDF

2012-07-12 Thread David Spreadbury
Lin, According to the Acrobat X Online Help: Your search for broken link did not match any documents. From: Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com To: Frame Users framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:50 AM Subject: Finding broken links in a PDF

RE: Finding broken links in a PDF

2012-07-12 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Lin, I am using AutoBookmark Professional from Evermap (http://www.evermap.com) to do this (among a lot of other things). The Professional version is $239, but the Standard version may be sufficient ($189). Of course, link checking should be built into the Acrobat product itself, but since it

Re: Finding broken links in a PDF

2012-07-12 Thread Lin Sims
David, Yeah, I was just hoping it was either more hidden than that or that Adobe had produced an add-on. Botheration! Rick, You're the second recommendation I've seen for that product. I'll pass the information along, but you know how some companies can get about spending money. :-s On Thu,

Re: Finding broken links in a PDF

2012-07-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:50:41 -0400, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Has Adobe added a tool for finding broken links in a PDF yet? If so, where is it? One of my coworkers is looking at a document that is umpty-pages long with even umptier numbers of links. It just isn't possible to find and

Re: Finding broken links in a PDF (An Update!)

2012-07-12 Thread Lin Sims
I think I've discovered (at least part of) the issue. The links are actually there. What's happening is that instead of the PDF hotspot covering the entirety of the text being wrapped in the xref or fm-xref tag, it's forming as a little tiny spot to the left of the visible text. I suspect this is

Re: Finding broken links in a PDF (An Update!)

2012-07-12 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Lin... Note that there are a few settings in DITA-FMx that enable hypertext in a PDF. First, in the main DITA Options dialog, there's an Add Hypertext Markers to External Xrefs option. This is for xref/@scope=external xrefs .. links to URLs or content outside of the scope of the DITA

Re: Finding broken links in a PDF

2012-07-12 Thread Robert Lauriston
A free option might be to set up DITA to generate Web help and use one of the many free HTML link checkers. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Lin Sims ljsims...@gmail.com wrote: Has Adobe added a tool for finding broken links in a PDF yet? If so, where is it? One of my coworkers is looking at a