Can you hyperlink to an external document?
Nov 15, 2012 1:37 AM
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As the title says, can you hyperlink in Framemaker to an external document?
The hyperlink will need to be clickable once converted to pdf.
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RoboColum(n) wrote:
Be weary of using an absolute path like that. If they have mapped or partitioned drives - or if they have control over where your documentation is placed - the link won't work. It would be better to use a relative path. For example if you have the documentation source inside C:\Technical Publications and place the PDF inside a folder called PDFs you'd just need to reference PDFs\document.pdf. This way no matter where the document is located, as long as the PDFs folder is there with it, the link would work. The other option is to use a URL as Error7103 suggested.
OK, I like the sound of this. I think you may over-estimate my ability though.
What commands am I going to use in the Hypertext box?| -
> What commands am I going to use in the Hypertext box?
First, ya gotta delimit what text is going to be active for the link. The usual way to do this is to define a character format, say, "Link", which may be "As Is" for everything, perhaps adding Underlined or blue color. Apply ChFmt to text string.
The basic implementation is, click in the text string:
Special > Hypertext
Command: Go to URL
message URL http://nonwww.enterprise_internal/resources/target.pdf or index.html, etc.
You can also insert it via the Special > Marker dialog.
Frame uses the character format to define the extents of the hypertext region.
Now, don't get into deep linking to specific content in target PDFs. That will derail the thread for sure
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OK. So I type the following in to a Go to URL Command:
message URL http:\\\192.XXX.XX.X:S:\TechnicalPublications\Documents\TS01090-A.pdf
This then gets re-written as:
message URL \\192.XXX.XX.X:S:echnicalPublications‡ocumentsS01090-A.pdf
What am I doing wrong?
I can't believe it's this difficult to put in a hyperlink.
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Yes, yes and yes!
It actually works with the %20, but I didn't check the Generate Acrobat Data box.
Spot on that, Matt. I'm pretty chuffed with that!
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
EDIT: Just to clarify what I did:
In Explorer, navigate to file containing the document
Copy address from Explorer navigation bar
Paste address in to the browser
Click name of file you want to link to
Copy address from browser address bar
In Framemaker select; Element Tag: <Unstructured>, Command: Go to URL
Paste clipboard after message URL
Click Edit Hypertext Marker.
Don't forget to check the Generate Acrobat Data box in Print Document when printing!
It would also be a good idea to create a character design (say underline and blue) that could be used to show where the link was (cheers, Error7103).
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