LESSON 14
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Hypertext and PDF
FrameMaker automatically creates the mappings of formats to HTML elements upon
initial conversion to HTML, but you can fine-tune them.
It is a good idea to choose a separate directory for the files created by a conversion to
HTML because you could create a number of them. Keeping the files in a separate
directory also makes it possible to move them without changing their relative
relationships.
To save a document in HTML format:
1 Open any document in the book.
2 Choose File / Save As and from the pop-up menu, select HTML.
3 Give the filename an extension of .html, specify the file location, and click Save.
The converted file is saved where you specified.
4 Open the HTML file in a Web browser to review the converted file.
Saving as PDF
FrameMaker 7.0 lets you save a document or a book directly as a Portable Document
Format (PDF) file. Readers use Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange to view PDF files.
PDF files can also be viewed in most Web browser windows.
Saving as PDF preserves the design and format of the original and creates a compact,
online system with many automatic hypertext features enabled. For example, cross-
references in FrameMaker 7.0 become links in the PDF file.
Note: To save a document as PDF in FrameMaker 7.0, you must have installed Acrobat
Distiller 5.05, which comes on your program CD. Ordinarily, you should have installed
Acrobat Distiller when you installed FrameMaker 7.0. If you didn’t, or if you removed it, you
won’t be able to perform the following steps until you install it.
1 If it isn’t already open, open the book file Hyper.book.
2 Choose File > Save Book As, and navigate to the folder where you want to save the PDF
file.
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