Hyperlink to highlighted text in PDF

[T__Herzer]

I'm trying to add a hyperlink to a FM file that will open a PDF to a specified phrase.

I've successfully added #page=x (x=desired page number) to open a PDF to a sepcific page number, but I'm unable to open a PDF to a desired word or phrase via an external hyperlink.

I've tried the comment command to no avail.

Any thoughts?

[Arnis Gubins]

Are you trying to go to a known locaion in a PDF or are you expecting the open action in the PDF to do a search for the specified phrase when it is opened (i.e. you don't know exactly where it is in the destination PDF)?

[T__Herzer]

I'm trying to go to a known location within a PDF. I would like to link directly to a word or phrase that is located near the botto of a page. Currently, I have it so the link opens the PDF at a specific page. However, the information I would like the redader to see is at the bottom of the page. Instead of having them scroll down, I would like the info. to be highlighted and located at the top of the screen.

[Arnis Gubins]

How are the destinations created in the target PDF? Are they already inserted or will you be adding them? With FM, any hyperlink that jumps to a PDF gets some content automatically prepended to a link name used in a marker. You either need to add this info to the destination in the PDF or use a tool like MicroType's TimeSavers (see http://microtype.com/TimeSavers.html) to strip off FM's default actions.

[T__Herzer]

I haven't created destinations in the targeted PDF, I thought you could use the search parameter instead. I'm using the search=wordList PDF open parameter to highlight a list of specific words in a target PDF. For example the following was added to the end of my hyperlink:...pdf#page=24&search="word1 word2 word 3". This will take me to the correct page within the target PDF, however it highlights every instance of the three words not just the occurrence of the words in order.

[Arnis Gubins]

The "search" option on the PDF hyperlink specifies a wordlist (i.e. words separated by spaces and enclosed in quotes) not a phrase, so it sounds like the hyperlink is doing exactly what you asked it to...

Details of what you can specify in a hyperlink to open PDF documents can be found in:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf

If you know the phrases that you need to target, then you'll have to insert destination targets in the PDF in order to hit those specific locations. You may want to contact Shlomo Perets at Microtype, in case his TimeSavers tool has something special that will do this type of link.

[T__Herzer]

Thank you for your help, Arnis. I contacted Shlomo Perets at Micro Type with my question. I heard from another writer that he is brilliant with FrameMaker and PDFs.