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Angela Ferrannini

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Oct 24, 2002, 2:10:49 PM10/24/02
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Wanted to know how to create a hyperlink in a Frame source, which I will convert to a PDF, that links to a specific page in another PDF. Thanks.

Joel Benson

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Oct 24, 2002, 7:37:35 PM10/24/02
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What is the history of the PDF file you are wanting to link to? Was it also created Frame and converted to PDF, or what? If it wasn't create in Frame, do you have the Acrobat program (so you can scan the document for named destinations) or just the Reader?

Joel Benson

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Oct 25, 2002, 1:30:37 PM10/25/02
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If all of these PDFs are created in Frame, they will automatically include a bunch of named destinations, as discussed under the following thread (among others):

Arnis Gubins "pdf links from frame maker docs" 6/5/02 11:58am </cgi-bin/webx?14@@.ef8f12d/0>

As long as the PDFs are accessed via the internet, this should work from any browser/platform. If the files are on a local drive, Windows IE won't be able to open them to specific pages or destinations because it interprets the #page or #dest syntax (file://path#page=2, for example) as part of the file name.

Everett Rubel

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Oct 25, 2002, 12:20:35 PM10/25/02
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Angela,

The URL for the hyperlink should look something like this for a PDF that is accessible on the Web (link to Document Rights section of Reader 5.1 User Guide):

<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrruserguide.pdf#page=26>

Putting a hyperlink in your FrameMaker source can create a hyperlink in the PDF that you create. Use the Special > Hypertext menu item, then insert a Go To URL command with the URL pasted in after the "message URL" marker text.

Angela Ferrannini

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Oct 25, 2002, 12:59:43 PM10/25/02
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All docs are created in Frame. All section/figures/tables in the Frame document that will become destinations in the resulting PDF files will have a unique hypertext destination marker in the Frame source.

I guess I should be more specific with my question: "From HTML, can a hyperlink cause a specified page in a PDF file to open?" The conditions for this case will be all PDFs will be authored in Frame, and all destinations will have a unique hypertext destination marker. This needs to work on Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms.

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