On 08/06/2011 2:41 PM, Beverly Robinson wrote:
Windows XP SP3, TCS2 (FrameMaker 9.0p255, Acrobat Extended Pro 9.4.4,
Distiller 9.4.2220), FrameMaker 8.0p277
Our service manuals have a main TOC and chapter TOCs on the first
page of each chapter. The chapter TOC is generated by selecting
Special | Table of Contents and then inserting the resulting .TOC
file by reference into the first page of the chapter file.
The problem book was started in English FrameMaker v8, saved back to
v7 to use as boilerplate in French FrameMaker v7. When the files were
returned to us in the US, we opened them in FrameMaker v8 again and
added the book and chapter TOCs. When we make a PDF of the book using
the "Standard" .joboptions file, the first three chapters have
relative links that don't work while the other two chapters have
working links. This is true for both the book TOC and the chapter
TOCs.
By "relative links" I mean that, in Acrobat Pro Extended with the
Links tool selected, selecting a link and then pressing Ctrl+I and
clicking the Actions tab displays similar to the following: Actions:
Go to a page in another document File: c:\[folder name]\[chapter file
name.pdf] Destination name: G1044809 Where the folder name is the
working folder for the book. There is no "chapter file name.pdf" in
that folder (which is probably why nothing happens). For TOC links
that _do_ work, the Action is "Go to a page in this document."
By "don't work" I mean that left-clicking a link does not move to a
different page of the PDF.
Make sure you've turned on Create Named Destinations For All Paragraphs
in the Links tab of the PDF setup dialog.
Cross-file links can point to different targets depending on whether
files are open or closed at the time of creation; I wonder if that has
something to do with your problem. Make sure your book and all its
chapters are open, but that the chapter TOC files are closed when you
create the book.pdf.
When we try to make the PDF from FrameMaker 9 we get an error message
in Distiller: Adobe PDF Settings file read error in PDFX4
2008.joboptions: /CheckCompliance out of range We can't find that
.joboptions file anywhere on our hard drive. Searching for
"joboptions" in a MIF of a chapter file found only the
Standard.joboptions that we specify when making the PDF.
This may be a second problem unrelated to the links issue.
On my similar set-up, the path is:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe
PDF\Settings\PDFX4 2008.joboptions
I think that file might get called by Distiller in the background as a
result of your own joboptions setting for General > File Options >
Compatibility, and/or Standards > Standards Reporting and Compliance.
Experiment with those?
HTH,
--
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3
Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325
http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
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