RE: FrameMaker's Future

[Shlomo Perets <shlomo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

You wrote:

> ... I went and clipped your comments:
> > Arbortext's Technical Support Guide (26-page PDF), "created
> > and published using Arbortext Software", has a Contents
> > page with 32 entries which use 226 links -- that's an
> > average of 7 links per entry.
>
> Multiple links per entry is probably the rule given how Epic creates 
> links. Whether 7 is truly an average multiplier or not is hard to say. I'd 
> be willing to run some numbers against our documents if you teach me how 
> to highlight/count the links.

To highlight the links, open the PDF in Acrobat and activate the Link tool 
(link rectangles are displayed).

To count the links, I use the Link Checker plug-in. My comment is related 
to TOC pages; I saw a similar problem with indexes. To check the number of 
links in such pages, the pages can be extracted first into a separate, 
temporary PDF.

> ... Note: It's been a while and a few versions since I worked with 
> FrameMaker (5.5.6) so I may not understand current functionality in this 
> regard. Many PDF advances were incorporated after I left.

In my opinion, the FM->PDF core set of properties is pretty much the same 
as in FM5.5 (after facts are sorted from hype & fiction). Nevertheless, and 
despite some limitations, I think that FrameMaker is still the best choice 
for authoring interactive PDFs.


Shlomo Perets

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