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techytw
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May 4, 2010
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Framemaker 8 to PDF

  • May 4, 2010
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Hi,

In my current project, I need to design a page , which when I open in Acrobat PDF version, shows links to all the user guides. Consider that I have three user guides which are contained in three separte books. In other words, I have three book files - Book A Book B and Book C. In Framemaker, I want to create a FM file in which I can add links to each of the book files. All the book files are contained in a separate folder on my machine.  The idea is that the user should be able to able to open any user guide from the separate page - all the user would have to do is click on a link in the PDF.

Kindly let me know  how this can be done.

Thanks!

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    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
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    May 4, 2010

    Without having the time to test this, I see two options I would test:

    A) Create a cross-reference to the title document of the other book. When saving as PDF make sure that this title document as well as the book which contains the title document are open in your FrameMaker session. Why? The product is rather intelligent regarding turning xrefs to other FM documents into links to PDF files. It can only turn a xref to a document into a link to a book if it knows about that relationsship.

    B) Insert a hypertext marker with content "openlink otherbook.pdf" (maybe I get the syntax wrong, working off my head). Just ignore that this hypertext link cannot be verified by FrameMaker.

    If A works, it would be most comfortable for the user, solution B would always work.

    - Michael

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    techytwAuthor
    Participant
    May 5, 2010

    Hi Michael,

    Thanks for the quick response. I tried using the second option;however, I

    keep getting an error (attached the screenshot of the error).

    To inster a hypertext marker, I did the following:

    1. Special>Hypertext.

    2. From the Command drop-down list, I selected Open Document as New and

    entered 'opennew TrialTOC.pdf'

    3. This throws an error -' TrialToc is not a Framemaker document'

    Please help!!

    On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Michael Müller-Hillebrand

    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Legend
    May 5, 2010

    Dear unknown,

    As FrameMaker can only check hypertext links to FrameMaker documents it brings up this error, but you can ignore it. Just test the link in the resulting PDF.

    - Michael

    PS: I would prefer to know the name of people I am writing to.

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