AboutWayne Johnson Expertise Basic set-up of books, master pages, generation of List of Effective pages (LEP), Indexing, auto-numbering. Various ways to import graphics, including advantages and disadvantages of importing into a text frame or importing into a "blank" page. Using a "book" to generate PDF files, with hyperlinking. Customization of function keys, currently setup for Frame 7.0 i.e. change F1 to turn "Change bar" On and Off, F2 to "Cut" a selection, F3 to copy, F4 to Paste, F6 to set line to "TOP OF PAGE" and Shift F6 to start line "anywhere" these can be easily your current config files and if you do not like them - old config files can be restored.
I have no expertise in Structured Framemaker, (i.e. XML or SGML).
Experience 10 years working with Framemaker, all version through Version 7.0
Primarily writing to Aviation ATA spec 100. Currently responsible for maintaining all company published maintenance documents in Framemaker and PDF and making them accessible through the company intranet.
Expert: Wayne Johnson Date: 5/17/2008 Subject: Framemaker 8: how to add hyperlinks within the document
Question I'm not sure how to add hyperlinks within an unstructured document so that the reader of a generated pdf will be able to jump around from highlighted links. I get confused between using Special|Cross-reference and Special|Hypertext. Sometimes I want to jump to a paragraph heading, sometimes to somewhere within a paragraph.
David
Answer David - In short
If you use SPECIAL - CROSS-REFERENCE within a document - then the text of the item you want to cross-reference to - will be inserted with a statement something like "See this is a test on page 2".
When you use hyper-text commands - they get converted to something that pdf can understand. You just create a link from one point in your document to another document or another point in the same document. When you use paragraph styles - this is what you select to create pdf bookmarks.
The Frame help menu has a lot more information than I can cover in this forum.
Some cross-references and hyper-text commands do not work when you convert your document to a pdf file/files.
The following is FRAME 7 Help File - But Frame 8 should be pretty close.
Go to the FRAME HELP file - Select "SEARCH" and enter the following:
PDF - Then in the RESULTS select "HYPERTEXT COMMANDS in HTML and PDF Documents," this will tell you what does and doesn't work when you convert to PDF.
