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February 25, 2013
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Is there a way to create a popup comment in FrameMaker 10?

  • February 25, 2013
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I would like to create "Comments" in FrameMaker that would display as a popup in the PDF output (similar to inserting Sticky Notes in Acrobat, but I want to insert it in the Frame source file). Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
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    February 25, 2013

    If you use the "alert" hypertext marker, then this is translated to an Acrobat "Note" feature (defaulted to an icon & without a title in the PDF).

    If this doesn't suffice, then you could use postscript text frames and enter the appropriate pdfmark commands to create a popup note in the PDF (this is extremely "under the hood" processing and you have to know about using postscript and the Acrobat pdfmark command set).

    The easiest & recommended route would be to get Shlomo Perets' Timesavers tool with the Forms assistant (AutoPopup function) to allow you to create and maintain these within FM. See: http://www.microtype.com/timesavers_Assistants.html for more details.

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    kmrountreeAuthor
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    February 25, 2013

    Thanks, Arnis - the Timesavers tool looks like it can do some interesting stuff. I'll look into that some more :-)

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