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Re: links are live in FrameMaker, dead in PDF

Subject: Re: links are live in FrameMaker, dead in PDF
From: "Sydney Compson" <sydney -dot- compson -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:04:06 -0400

That did it! Thank you so much !

sydney


On 8/16/06, Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:


The first thing to try is selectiong the "Create named destinations
for all paragraphs" option in FrameMaker's PDF Setup dialog. The
PDF files will be larger, but all the links should work.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ


>From: "Sydney Compson" <sydney -dot- compson -at- gmail -dot- com>
>To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>Subject: links are live in FrameMaker, dead in PDF
>Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:20:26 -0400
>
>hello, tech-wrl-ers,
>
>Has anyone else experienced the following issue? I have a PDF that has a
>number of dead links. That is, they *look* like hyperlinks, but when you
>click on them, nothing happens. However, when I go to the FrameMaker
source
>files, the links are fine -- with each one, the cross-reference appears
to
>have been created correctly, and when I Ctrl-Alt-click on the link (in
>Frame), it takes me to the desired location.
>
>I'm not sure how to proceed with this since, again, the FrameMaker
>groundwork seems to be correct. I've tried re-PDFing (which, perhaps not
>surprisingly, doesn't help), as well as deleting
>problematic cross-references and creating them again (this helps
>sometimes).
>But the latter approach seems overly tedious for this particular book,
>which
>is long and has a massive number of cross-references. Does anyone know
what
>might be causing the problem?
>
>grazie!
>sydney
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links are live in FrameMaker, dead in PDF: From: Sydney Compson
RE: links are live in FrameMaker, dead in PDF: From: Fred Ridder

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