Creating Hyperlinks in FrameMaker Source Documents

If you are importing Adobe FrameMaker documents and you have created hyperlinks by using "Specify Named Destination" and "Jump to Named Destination" markers, Flare will automatically convert them to links in your project. Following are steps for creating these hyperlinks in Adobe FrameMaker. For more information, please refer to the documentation provided with Adobe FrameMaker.

How to Create a Hyperlink in a FrameMaker Source Document

The following steps may vary in different versions of FrameMaker.

1. Open the Adobe FrameMaker document.
2. In Adobe FrameMaker, place your cursor at the spot to be used as the destination for a link. This might be a heading that will become a new topic when you import the document. When a user clicks on the hyperlink (created below), this is the content that will be displayed to end users.
3. Select Special > Hypertext. The Hypertext dialog opens.
4. From the Command field, select Specify Named Destination.The text "newlink" is added to the area below.
5. After the text "newlink," type a name to identify the destination (perhaps the name of the heading).
6. Click New Hypertext Marker.
7. Locate the area that you want to serve as the hyperlink. Prepare the area to become a hyperlink, according to the documentation provided with Adobe FrameMaker.
8. Place your cursor in the prepared hypertext area.
9. From the Command field of the Hypertext dialog, select Jump to Named Destination. The text "gotolink" is added to the text area below.
10. After the text "gotolink," type the name that you gave to the destination marker.
11. Click New Hypertext Marker.
12. Close the Hypertext dialog.
13. Save the Adobe FrameMaker document.

What’s Next?

After you import the Adobe FrameMaker document(s), you can generate the output in Flare and test the hyperlink. See Importing FrameMaker Files and Step 5: Building and Publishing Output.