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Anonymous
August 10, 2010
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No PDF bookmarks generated from structured FM90 book

  • August 10, 2010
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We used an FDK based application to nightly build/generate structured FM books from XML files and then save these books as PDF.

This automated process worked fine as long as we employed FM70 and FDK70.

After an upgrade to FM90 and a recompilation of the application with FDK90 some things went awry. Most of the issues we could solve ourselves, but there remains the main issue that the application will no longer generate PDF bookmarks.

Our application will only generate PDF bookmarks, if the automated process is interrupted after the conversion of XML files to an FM book and before saving the book as PDF. Now the PDF Setup dialog has to be selected from the FM menu for each file in the book (even without actually changing any setting there) before the process can be continued by calling our customized "Save as PDF" function (based on the FDK's saveas sample).

Without opening the PDF Setup dialog no PDF bookmarks will be created. We already experimented quite a lot - without any results (which is quite frustrating).

Has anyone experienced similar problems? Or even better solved them?

Or does anyone know how to trigger the PDF Setup dialog from an application?

Any ideas are welcome...

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hovernut
Participant
August 31, 2010

We too are experiencing the same problem and trying to figure out a way to trigger the PDF Setup dialog. It appears to be the key to getting bookmarks. In addition to getting no bookmarks, is anyone else finding that the F_ApiSave() to PDF is leaving all the .lck files?

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ArjoHP
Participating Frequently
April 19, 2012

Was a definitive answer to these problems ever found? I too am experiencing a lot of problems migrating code that worked fine in FM7 to FM10.

Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
Legend
August 11, 2010

Cedar,

Some ideas:

Does the application save the files created from XML to disk before doing the Save As PDF?

Have you made sure that the template you use with your structured application already has the appropriate settings?

- Michael

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Anonymous
August 11, 2010

Hello Michael,

thank you for your hints.

Yes, the application saves the generated book before calling the Save as PDF function.

And the templates we are using seem to be correct (at least the Generate Bookmark box is checked).

Apart from that will the application also set the FP_PDFBookmark property to True for book and documents.

Should the template's PDF settings be identical with the PDF properties configured by the application?

If we save the generated book by selecting "Save as PDF" from the File menu, enter path/file name and acknowledge

the PDF Setup dialog, the PDF is saved correctly.

-cedar

Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
Legend
August 11, 2010

Am 11.08.2010 um 16:10 schrieb cedar2010:

If we save the generated book by selecting "Save as PDF" from the File menu, enter path/file name and acknowledge the PDF Setup dialog, the PDF is saved correctly.

I had a similar process automated (not for nightly builds, but creating PDFs for many languages one after another) and the customer does not complain. It was with FrameMaker 8, though.

It seems you have to strip down your process into segments to isolate the step where the necessary bits are not set correctly.

- Michael

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