And, of course, as soon as I sent this I remembered: the hotspot works up until the point in the text where you've added a character tag or something that changes the format. Now, that's in unstructured, but I'm wondering if they've wrapped the part where the link breaks in another element or something. I shall be investigating more tomorrow....
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote: > I think I've discovered (at least part of) the issue. > > The links are actually there. What's happening is that instead of the > PDF hotspot covering the entirety of the text being wrapped in the > xref or fm-xref tag, it's forming as a little tiny spot to the left of > the visible text. I suspect this is the same thing that happens with > xrefs to table footnotes, although at the moment I'm not remembering > the why. > > Tomorrow I'm going to take a look at the files this is happening in to > see if my coworkers are using the same elements in cases where it > works versus where it doesn't work, whether the attributes are > different, etc. I'm pretty new to structured Frame/DITA in general, so > digging into this ought to be fun. :) > > HOWEVER!!! If anyone has already seen this issue and knows the cause > and a fix, feel free to let me know. I love to figure things out, but > I hate reinventing the wheel! (Meantime, off to Google!) > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote: >> Has Adobe added a tool for finding broken links in a PDF yet? If so, >> where is it? One of my coworkers is looking at a document that is >> umpty-pages long with even umptier numbers of links. It just isn't >> possible to find and click all of them to see if they all work, and >> work as intended. As I recall, the lack of a tool like this has been a >> long-standing issue with Acrobat, and I was kinda hoping they'd fixed >> it by now. >> >> (For reference, the files are structured FrameMaker being saved as PDF >> from a book file created using Leximation's DITA-FMx plugin, and it's >> Adobe Acrobat X.) >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Lin Sims > > > > -- > Lin Sims -- Lin Sims