Re: Phantom hotlink in PDF file

[Shlomo Perets <shlomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charlie,

You wrote:

>Here's a weird one...
>
>I have a chapter with embedded weblinks. There are 4 links on an even page
>and a few more on the following odd page.
>
>Near the the bottom of the odd page one of the even page weblinks is
>active. The phantom hotlink (on the odd page) is in the same geographical
>location as it is on the even page. However, there is no text, anchors or
>hotlink in Frame.
>
>The duplicate link does not appear in the Frame File even with a
>Generate/Marker/Hypertext run. The duplicate (Shadow) hot link only appears
>in the PDF file.
>
>Has anyone else seen this? Any advice? I have run out of ideas for
>go-around fixs.
>
>FrameMaker 5.5.6p145
>Distiller 4.0 0312


This is an "ancient" bug, present in all releases of FrameMaker and
FrameMaker+SGML, 5.0 to 5.5.6.

See additional info & workaround in the "FM known bugs & issues"
http://www.microtype.com/resources/bugs/DuplicateLink.html

Good news! the bug was finally fixed in FrameMaker 6.0.
(for additional info, see my review of PDF-related features in FM6.0,
at http://www.microtype.com/resources/FM6-PDF.pdf).

Most likely, this fix caused another problem: links on master pages
were not carried over to PDF, which was fixed in the recent patch to
FM6.0/FMSGML 6.0.


Shlomo Perets

MicroType * http://www.microtype.com
FrameMaker-to-Acrobat: TimeSavers / Advanced Techniques Course / Solutions




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