Re: Troubleshooting broken cross-references in FrameMaker documentsconverted to PDF

[Shlomo Perets <shlomo2 -at- microtype -dot- com>]

Adding to Fred Ridder's reply (assuming that the cross-references are 
functional in FrameMaker):

* If the link in the PDF "doesn't do anything", or opens a different PDF at 
the default opening page, without displaying an error message in 
Acrobat/Reader, it is indeed a case of missing named destinations, and the 
simple fix is to turn on Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs (PDF 
Setup, Links tab) and recreate the PDF.

Several real-life PDFs demonstrating bad links related to the so-called PDF 
Optimization (where FrameMaker is supposed to only create the destinations 
needed) can be found at http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html (the May 2006 
item, for example, is  a PDF authored with FrameMaker 7.2, where 44% of the 
cross-reference links are non-functional).

* If the link in the PDF displays an error message ("file not found"), the 
problem has to do with cross-file linking issues, related to the PDF 
conversion process (e.g. target FM books open or closed when the PS files 
are produced).

* If the expected link is simply not present in the PDF (but other 
links/bookmarks do exist), this has to do with the cross-reference being 
part of a text inset.


Shlomo Perets

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