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Subject:Re: Re. HTML vs. Acrobat From:"Marvin W. Miller" <Marvin_Miller -at- SEC -dot- SEL -dot- SONY -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:28:01 -0800
Framemaker hyperlinks are preserved with Acrobat. You must use the Distiller
instead of Exchange.
> One other note: Until they revise applications (e.g, PageMaker)
> to incorporate hyperlinks that will be preserved when you produce
> the Acrobat version of the document, Acrobat is unacceptable for
> online work that will change regularly. Too much hassle to
> constantly have to recreate the hyperlinks in Acrobat itself. (Caveat:
> I haven't updated my version of Acrobat for more than a year... have
> they fixed this gaping hole yet? I know they've at least _tried_ to
> patch it in PageMaker 6, albeit unsuccessfully so far.)
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Marvin W. Miller
Supervisor, Technical Communications Group
Sony Systems Engineering Center - San Jose, CA
Ph 408-955-4251
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Opinions expressed here probably differ from that of my
employer. If I ruffle your feathers, get mad at me - not Sony.
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