Hi Richard, I create only regular indices, and I get the behaviour I described and which I also found in official PDF files. You can get link areas across the whole line with regular indices. You do not need ALM or IOM.
Did you check the paragraph format of your separators on the reference page? Best regards Winfried > -----Original Message----- > From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.combs at Polycom.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:15 PM > To: Reng, Dr. Winfried; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es) > > Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: > > > When there is only a single reference the link area in the resulting > > PDF file encompasses the whole paragraph - provided that there is > > really no change in the character formatting (page number, > separator, > > text). The link area does not start at the position of the marker > > but extends in both directions of the marker until there is a change > > in the character formatting or the paragraph ends. A change > in character > > formatting could also be a character format with everything > set to As Is. > > Test it out, e.g.: > > > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/framemaker_9_help.pdf > > Or the MML reference in the FrameMaker installation folder > (at least for FM > > 8) > > I've created many indexes in FM 5.1 through 7.2, and recently > began working with 9.0. I've never had my own indexes exhibit > this behavior, either in FM or in PDF. The hotspots have > always been limited to the page numbers, whether an entry had > one or multiple page numbers. > > I'm looking right now at the FM 7 MIF_Reference.pdf and > MML_Reference.pdf. The former's index exhibits the behavior > I'm familiar with: only the page numbers are hyperlinks. The > latter exhibits the behavior you describe: the entire line is > a hyperlink. > > The index behavior I'm familiar with is the result of > generating a regular index -- which is what I always do. I > suspect that the behavior you're describing is the result of > generating something else -- probably an alphabetical list of > markers (ALM) or index of markers (IOM). > > > Richard G. Combs > Senior Technical Writer > Polycom, Inc. > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom > 303-223-5111 > ------ > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom > 303-903-6372 > ------ > > > > > > >
