Embedding a PDF into Framemaker

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December 29, 2025
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I am making a operations and maintenance manual and want to embed individual equipment manuals into the FrameMaker document and subsequent PDF output file so the users can make full use of all content within the embed PDF (i.e. open the document in a separate window) from the published PDF file.

I found help information which suggested I could use the Import File with an icon which will be selectable, but FrameMaker 2022 doesn't give me this option. Only to pick one of the pages.

frameexpert

Community Expert

FrameMaker essentially treats the imported PDF pages as graphics. You lose any interactivity that is in the original PDF that you are importing. You may want to create a PDF from your FrameMaker content, and then combine the original equipment manuals in Acrobat. This will preserve the interactivity. Or, you can build links from the FrameMaker content to the other PDFs. When you make a PDF from the FrameMaker content, the links to the other PDFs should work.

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Bob_Niland

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re: FrameMaker essentially treats the imported PDF pages as graphics.

To plainly state the implication, yes, only one source PDF page is obtained per Import.

And even that may only work if the source PDF has sufficiently open security.

If the source documents are also FM, importing by reference (Text Inset) from the .fm sources, or adding whole files to Book are a possibilities, and provide more options in the referencing file.

Importing PDF often makes sense, and going forward is likely preferrable to importing EPS for certain object types.

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