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K.Daube
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May 20, 2020
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U3D - how should Link to Text work?

  • May 20, 2020
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen, please enlighten me.

While I can make links from text (or link table) to the object parts or views, the opposite does not work:

  • When clicking on a part I expect to jump to the corresponding named destination.
  • An explicit gotolink command works as expected  (see Manual test in the attached files).
  • However, the procedure as described under "Link from part to text" does not provide the desired result. BTW this procedure is the same as described in Help or elsewhere.
  • In the files you see Named destinations FLengineSpinner and fl_engine_propeller. After creating the pdf for the first time I noticed that named destination eliminate the underscore, hence I left it out for the one item for test - but that did not help either.
  • The named destinations in pdf are not the same as you work with in FM, they have a 'prefix' Mn.newlink.fm_link_name (with n being the file number within a book). But these 'expanded' destinations are not valid in the hypertext command.

→ So how to create these links from part to text?

Files: U3D.fm  and U3D.pdf

May be important details: Acrobat Pro 2017 (17.011.30171.53481), FM-15.0.5.838.

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    K.Daube
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    K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
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    May 24, 2020

    Sorry folks, you could not check my experience, because I did not provide all files required for test.

    Both FM and Graphics and a resulting pdf are in this ZIP file.

    Please forget the links in the first post - i can not remove it ...

    K.Daube
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    K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
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    September 24, 2020

    Missing comments may not be a sign that nobody uses this feature - but I fear it is such a sign!