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

Subject: Re: Troubleshooting broken cross-references in FrameMaker documentsconverted to PDF
From: Shlomo Perets <shlomo2 -at- microtype -dot- com>
To: cll01821 -at- lycos -dot- com
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:05:11 +0300

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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References:
RE: Troubleshooting broken cross-references in FrameMaker documentsconverted to PDF: From: Fred Ridder
Troubleshooting broken cross-references in FrameMaker documents converted to PDF: From: C

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