Re: Create Named Destinations fo All Paragraphs

[Shlomo Perets <shlomo2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sverre,

You wrote:

> Does anybody have a better description of when to use the "on" and "off"
> settings of the above check box than provided by the FrameMaker help
> function?
> Can one relay on that all inserted cross-reference and hypertext links
> works regardless of the chosen setting?

With FrameMaker 6.0 or higher (true also in FM7.1), with/without structure, 
having "Create Named Destinations for All Paragraphs" (in PDF Setup, Links 
tab) turned OFF, is known to cause some bad links in PDFs, quite often -- 
this equally applies to links generated from cross-references or from 
hypertext markers.
One sample file which demonstrates this is included in the list 
of  FrameMaker Known Bugs/Issues [ http://www.microtype.com/FM_bugs.html ].

Many PDFs authored in FrameMaker have this problem, but very few producers 
use a PDF link checker to verify that all links are functional. And while 
Distiller 5 and earlier included a limited warning relating to undefined 
destinations used by links/bookmarks in the file being distilled, it is no 
longer present in Distiller 6 or 7.

Having this setting turned ON will create a larger PDF (as each 10 names 
destinations take up  ~1KB, and in some documents you may have many 
paragraphs per page, as in tables where each cell has at least one 
paragraph even if empty).

If you produce PDFs that have no cross-file links between them, you may use 
the Acrobat 5 or higher functions to remove unused named destinations, but 
this should be done with care (as these functions could easily damage some 
interactive items).
See http://www.microtype.com/Acrobat.html , "PDF Optimizer", for more 
information and a sample file.

If file size is a consideration and you have cross-file links in PDFs, you 
may also consider using the UnBloat function in my FrameMaker-to-Acrobat 
TimeSavers add-on (executed automatically as part of the distilling 
process), see http://www.microtype.com/TimeSavers/fm2acro.pdf#UnBloat
[ Feedback received from users is available at: 
http://www.microtype.com/TimeSavers/TSUnBloatFeedback.html ]


Shlomo Perets

MicroType * http://www.microtype.com
FrameMaker, Acrobat training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers
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