Re: ANN: IndexRef for FrameMaker

[Irene Rush <irene@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounded great until I went to your Web site and saw that it's not available
for Mac.  You say it's "easy to adapt to diverse situations" - why not
diverse platforms?  That's supposed to be one of FrameMaker's strengths.

Irene Rush


At 9:38 PM -0600 4/21/03, Ian Hawkins wrote:
>Have you ever created a PDF from FrameMaker with cross reference index
>entries like this?
>
>     rocks. See stones
>
>Have you noticed what happens when you open the PDF in Acrobat or
>Acrobat Reader and click the index entry? Instead of jumping to the
>cross reference location in the index, you are sent off into the
>document itself and you have to find your way back to the index.
>
>This is a by-product of the way FrameMaker creates its indexes. Every
>entry in the index links to the marker defining the entry. For normal
>index entries, this is ideal. For cross reference entries created with
>the <$nopage> building block, though, it doesn't work properly.
>
>IndexRef is a FrameMaker API client (plugin) that fixes this shortcoming.
>
>IndexRef finds cross reference entries in an index, determines where the
>destination link should be, and rewrites the hyperlink so clicking it
>will jump to the appropriate place in the index.
>
>Visit http://www.sundorne.com/IndexRef/indexref.htm for details, and
>download a free evaluation version.
>
>IndexRef is the first in a series of utilities that I am planning for
>FrameMaker. They are easy to install, easy to use, and easy to adapt to
>diverse situations. I hope to announce some others soon.
>
>--
>Ian Hawkins
>Sundorne Communications:
>    Writing for technology . . . technology for writing
>ihawkins@sundorne.com
>http://www.sundorne.com
>



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