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Indicate new/updated features with
quick-access bookmarks
When you issue updated manuals as PDFs, users who are already
familiar with the software/device will not read the entire manual
just to find out what is new and what has changed. Creating a
separate Release Notes document is not always an option. You
can help them identify the new information or changes by indicating
new/updated features using bookmarks, grouped under an appropriate
heading (such as New/Updated:), pointing to specific
locations in your PDF -- where Acrobat notes provide more information
if necessary.
This is easy to achieve with the Extract quick-access bookmarks
function (Bmk Extraction tab). In the source FrameMaker files,
you insert hypertext markers in the sections which include new
or changed items. When the documents are converted to PDF, these
markers result in bookmarks, sorted under a user-defined heading.
The bookmark text can include a short prefix (such as new:
or changed: -- resulting in separately-sorted groups).
In the cases where you would like to provide more information,
a note can be defined as part of the hypertext marker (for a
longer note you can reference an external text file from within
the marker). You can control the note's icon, color, location
and initial open/close state; bookmark properties can include
color and font style.
Example
(PDF: 117K); zip
file (130K) includes PDF and source
.fm file
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