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Anonymous
January 12, 2010
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Generated PDF file...TOC Items Not Linked

  • January 12, 2010
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Been racking my brain all day trying to figure out how the heck I created a PDF document TOC with hot links to the document pages from FM 9...and now all of a sudden when I save as a PDF from FM 9 my PDF document TOC is not linked to the document.  Help in FM 9 is not very helpful.  I'm using FM 9, Structured.  Help please.

Thank you,

Eric G.

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Correct answer Art_Campbell1

Ahhhh....well...within FM when I do Crtl/Alt and click, I get a "Cannot find object specified in hypertext command".  So why aren't they working and is there anything I can do to fix this Van?

Eric


OK, that was the key fact we were looking for.

It the hypertext links are there in the TOC, but faulty -- they're not pointing to the correct FM source file/anchor, they obviously won't work in the PDF either.

Given that you're generating the links in an external application, that would be the place to look for a solution, since the generated links don't have the correct destination information.

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Art Campbell
Inspiring
January 12, 2010

In Frame, when you right-click the TOC file and select Properties, is the Generate Hypertext Links checkbox activated?

And, when you Print to the PDF printer, on the Print dialog bos, do you have Generate Acrobat data checked? (Take care to UNcheck Print to File)?

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Anonymous
January 12, 2010

Hi Art, thank you for responding so fast.  My TOC is being generated by an external source (ATA iSpec2200 app), so I don't have a "TOC" FM file to view properties on.   At one time I was saving docs to PDF and having the TOC links active.  Do you think the problem lies in my external TOC generator?

Eric

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Art Campbell
Inspiring
January 12, 2010

Well, to focus on the TOC...Is it a FM file, and if so, when you open it, do the hypertext links work within Frame?

If they are there, and they function, the problem is outside FM, in the conversion to PDF. If they're not there, though,

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