Active footnotes hyperlinks in pdf?

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I am inserting a whole lot of footnotes in my text and was expecting to have active links from the reference numbers to the footnotes when I published as pdf. But that is not happening? What may I be overlooking here? I feel pretty convinced that this used to work. But now I have tried in both 2022 and 2020, and... no hyperlinks! I am using tagged pdf and distiller.... shouldn't this work?

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K.Daube

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Bjørn, for this very purpose I developed the script FMnotes. See Enhanced Footnotes on my webpage.

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FrameMaker-dk

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ok - seems I still have to do the work twice and insert at cross reference AND a footnote, in order to have an active footnote.

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Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk

LinSims

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Yes, if you want to refer to an existing footnote, you have to use an XREF.

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Barb Binder

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Hi Bjørn:

I've never seen footnote hyperlinks in an exported PDF. They ought to, now that you mention it.

~Barb

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~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

FrameMaker-dk

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Both you and @LinSims are correct and I must be remembering this wrong. MS Word will do this trick no questions asked which is kind of annoying. 🙂 Must put it on the FM wishlist I suppose.

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Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk

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