Re: Framemaker - Mailto in Framemaker and .pdf?

["Lester C. Smalley" <lsmalley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriele,

as several other contributors have pointed out, the syntax for the
hypertext command to enable an email link in FrameMaker (and that is
converted properly in the distilled PDF file) is "message URL
mailto:abc@xyz.com";

It is important to note that the keyword "URL" _must_ be in uppercase
"message url" will not work!

And, if you desire, you can also "pre-select" more than just the email
address by adding additional fields and values in the command like so:

   message URL mailto:abc@xyz.com?Subject=Hey%20You?cc=ac@dc.com

where each new field is introduced by the question mark character, and the
value for that field follows the equal sign.

You can't have spaces inside a value but you replace them with %20 (the
hexadecimal code for a space). They will be converted back to spaces in the
mail message.

Gabriele Strek wrote:

> I just fell over a problem using Framemaker 6.0 and converting to .pdf
> (Acrobat 5.0):
> We decided to write an email address into our Frame files.
> Now we want the customers to just click on a link so that an email
> form is opened.
> For HTML this works fine, it is just an "HREF="mailto ..."".
> But how do I implement this for files that are converted to .pdf?
> The hypertext command does not work, or at least I wouldn't know which
> one to choose.

-- Lester
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