RE: Some links in PDF don't work
Thanks, Stuart, for your suggestions, but neither creating named destinations nor having all book files open made a difference. I admit I didn't spend much time experimenting with Distiller settings, but the first thing I tried didn't produce working links. And by that time one of my colleagues took a chapter file back to .txt and reapplied the styles, resulting in a chapter that had working links. So that's what we'll be doing with this book. Thanks for trying to help, Beverly -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:13 PM To: Beverly Robinson Cc: Post Framers Subject: Re: Some links in PDF don't work 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 NOTICE This message and any attachment(s) are for authorized use by the intended recipient(s) only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are an intended recipient, you may not use, copy, retain, or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message and any attachment(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please immediately contact the sender and delete this message and any attachment(s). ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Some links in PDF don't work
Thanks, Stuart, for your suggestions, but neither creating named destinations nor having all book files open made a difference. I admit I didn't spend much time experimenting with Distiller settings, but the first thing I tried didn't produce working links. And by that time one of my colleagues took a chapter file back to .txt and reapplied the styles, resulting in a chapter that had working links. So that's what we'll be doing with this book. Thanks for trying to help, Beverly -Original Message- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:13 PM To: Beverly Robinson Cc: Post Framers Subject: Re: Some links in PDF don't work 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 NOTICE ? This message and any attachment(s) are for authorized use by the intended recipient(s) only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are an intended recipient, you may not use, copy, retain, or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message and any attachment(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please immediately contact the sender and delete this message and any attachment(s).
Some links in PDF don't work
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. 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. We _can_ make a PDF from FrameMaker 8, but with the non-functioning link problems described above. We tried MIF-washing the problem chapters but that didn't fix any of the problems. We tried removing the chapter TOC from one of the chapter files, but links in the book TOC still weren't functioning correctly. The results are the same whether we create the PDF by the 1-step or 2-step process. My bag of tricks is empty. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. Please reply to me as well as the list because I'm on digest and won't get the next one until after lunch tomorrow. Thank you, Beverly NOTICE This message and any attachment(s) are for authorized use by the intended recipient(s) only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are an intended recipient, you may not use, copy, retain, or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message and any attachment(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please immediately contact the sender and delete this message and any attachment(s). ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Some links in PDF don't work
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 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Some links in PDF don't work
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. 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. We _can_ make a PDF from FrameMaker 8, but with the non-functioning link problems described above. We tried MIF-washing the problem chapters but that didn't fix any of the problems. We tried removing the chapter TOC from one of the chapter files, but links in the book TOC still weren't functioning correctly. The results are the same whether we create the PDF by the 1-step or 2-step process. My bag of tricks is empty. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. Please reply to me as well as the list because I'm on digest and won't get the next one until after lunch tomorrow. Thank you, Beverly NOTICE ? This message and any attachment(s) are for authorized use by the intended recipient(s) only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are an intended recipient, you may not use, copy, retain, or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message and any attachment(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please immediately contact the sender and delete this message and any attachment(s).
Some links in PDF don't work
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
