Thanks, Shlomo. I was actually concerned about how to turn it off. The help provided no help in the matter, and poking around Acrobat made me none the wiser.
Cheers, Nadine >________________________________ > From: Shlomo Perets <shlomo2 at microtype.com> >To: Writer <generic668 at yahoo.ca> >Cc: Theresa de Valence <TdeV at bstw.com>; framers at lists.frameusers.com >Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:58:49 AM >Subject: Re: Hypertext? > >Nadine, > >You wrote: > >> If you only need to output to PDF, I don't think you need to do anything. I >> ran a quick test with FM 9/Acrobat Pro 8, and Acrobat Pro automatically >> recognized the text in the FM file as an email address (although, I can't >> find how to prevent it from doing this). You might want to give the address >> a character tag in FM to make it look like a link. > > >Inserting a hypertext marker, as described by Rick Quatro and Syed Zaeem >Hosain, which results in an Acrobat link, is recommended. > >When you don't insert the marker, you may still see what looks like a link,? >because of the Acrobat/Reader feature of detecting links in the content >(Edit>Preferences, General; in versions 8/9/X it is called "Create Links from >URLs",? in version 7 "Automatically detect URLs from text"). > >This detection has some limitations, depending on the Acrobat/Reader version >used by your end users; it is not available with Reader versions earlier than >7 (and may also also not be available in non-Adobe PDF viewers) > >To have fully-functional e-mail links in all versions of Reader, I recommend >adding hypertext links in FrameMaker, so that "real" e-mail links are present >in the PDF (and not relying on auto-detected ones). > > >Shlomo Perets > >MicroType, http://www.microtype.com >FrameMaker/TCS training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120328/3465561d/attachment.html>