RE: FrameMaker Index to pdf

[Hedley_S_Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Frameuses et Frameux (cochon-Franglais):

>
> To create a bookmark by hand for the index chapter heading:
> 1) In Acrobat Exchange, click the Text selection tool button.
> 2) Highlight the index chapter title in your book.
> 3) Press Ctrl-b.
> 4) Drag the resulting bookmark to the appropriate spot in the bookmark
list.
> Of course, if you want to make bookmarks for each of the letters, that's
> about 26 times more work, but only a couple of minutes of effort.
> Alternatively, you could create an index template in Frame that has a
table
> in the header containing hyperlinks to each index heading letter.
> --Will
>

As advised earlier in this thread, you could move the GroupHeadingIX para
tag (I think that's right) to the Include list in the Acrobat setup.  All
UNIX systems have all documentation, including the User Guide, in the
installation directory.  User Guides for (I think) FM 5.1 and earlier --
that is, the Frame Technology versions before Adobe dumbed them down --
have a series of hyperlink buttons for each alphabetic group in the top
margin of each Index page.

You can steal them for your own manuals or set up by hand.  Create an
**anchored** frame on your master page's background and give its anchor the
conditional tag of 'PDF'.  Within the frame, add the alphabetic group
titles using the graphics text tool (non-flow).  Draw a text box on top of
each group title. Click in the text box then insert a hyperlink marker that
points to the appropriate group title. (Examine the marker at the start of
each group title in the Index to get the name of the target that the
hyperlink statement is to point to -- from memory, I think it is just the
letter of the alphabet, but I am not sure what happens with 'X,Y,Z' group
titles.)

Because the hyperlink button are on the master pages, they will appear on
every body pages and are converted to PDF hyperlinks.  When you print the
manual to paper, hide the PDF condition.  When you 'print' to Acrobat PDF,
show the PDF condition.

Here endeth the sermon,
Hedley


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