ANN: Navigation Assistant 2.2 (FM2PDF) -- SideLinks, GetItem

[Shlomo Perets <mtype@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Navigation Assistant 2.2 (TimeSavers add-on) has two new features:

* SideLinks -- can mark active cross-references with a user-defined symbol, 
placed in the margin or within the text, reducing the visual "noise" 
associated with numerous colored/underlined text links.

* GetItem (link or bookmark) -- provides fast access to userd-efined named 
destinations, useful as an additional access mode when numerous items are 
identified by number/code.


Navigation Assistant feature demos are available in the Showcase section at 
www.microtype.com
All features are defined in FrameMaker, PDF distilled with 
TimeSavers+Navigation Assistant (no post-distilling intervention in Acrobat):

- Indicating cross-references with a user-defined symbol (SideLinks):
embedded symbol indicators: 
http://www.microtype.com/showcase/NavigationAsst/SideLinks1.pdf (104K)
margin (left or 
right):  http://www.microtype.com/showcase/NavigationAsst/SideLinks2.pdf (104K)

- Accessing items through typing an item code (GetItemLink, GetItemBmk):
http://www.microtype.com/showcase/NavigationAsst/ItemCodeAccess.pdf (52K)
(also demonstrates the use of ConvertFMnewlink to define named destinations)

- PopUp Menus with ~more:
http://www.microtype.com/showcase/NavigationAsst/PopUpMenus.pdf (64K; 
Acrobat/Reader 5 required)

- Chapter Tabs, Next/Previous Chapter, Super Next/Previous Page, Chapter 
Title Bookmarks (cross-file): 
http://www.microtype.com/showcase/NavigationAsst/Habits.pdf (cross-linked 
PDFs; ~100K each; Acrobat/Reader 5 required).

- Next/Previous Topic Jumps:
http://www.microtype.com/showcase/NavigationAsst/NextTopic.pdf (58K)


New version is available free of charge to current license holders.


Shlomo Perets

MicroType * http://www.microtype.com
FrameMaker, Acrobat training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers
FrameMaker-to-PDF Assistants: Form, Navigation, Presentation, Defaults





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