Our documentation comprises On-line Help as CHM files, and User Guides as PDF. Up to now the user guides were printed but we wish to provide them as PDF for on-screen use.
Now we also wish to have hyperlinks from CHM to PDF and vice versa. We can presumably (I haven't yet tested this) handle PDF-to-CHM using the context-sensitive help functionality, but when we make links from CHM-to-PDF we are unable to go to a specified location in the PDF.
The calls we use are of the type:
<a href='SomeDocument.pdf#page=10'>
<a href='SomeDocument.pdf#G1025448'>
<a href='SomeDocument.pdf#nameddest=SomeChapter'>
and they work in the preview window but not from CHM; the PDF opens on page 1 rather than at the specified page or marker.
I had some success embedding the PDF call in a batch file and calling that, but that will be unmaintainable.
We use RoboHelp 8 and FrameMaker 7.1. Would updating to TCS2 (ie Frame 9) help us? From what I could find on Adobe.com TCS allows importing from Frame but we do not want to import, just to cross-refer, preferably with links which can be updated automatically.
Anybody who can advise us?
--- Derek