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FM-to-PDF Showcase: TimeSavers | Form Asst | Navigation Asst | Presentation Asst | Multimedia Asst | 3D Asst | Layer Asst | Custom Shortcuts

Navigation Assistant

All Acrobat features defined in FrameMaker, distilled with TimeSavers+Navigation Assistant:

  • Indicating cross-references with a user-defined symbol -- embedded (PDF: 104K) or in the margin (left or right, PDF: 104K)
  • Accessing items through typing an item code (PDF: 52K) (distilled with TimeSavers+Navigation Assistant; also demonstrates the use of ConvertFMnewlink to define destinations)
  • Dynamic Document Map ("you are here") (PDF: 58K); zip file (560K) includes PDFs and source .fm files.
  • Next/Previous Topic Jumps (PDF: 58K); zip file (51K) includes PDF and source .fm file.
  • PopUp Menus with ~more (PDF: 64K; Acrobat/Reader 5 required) - menu entries can activate jumps to destinations in same file, in other PDFs, web links (all types), pre-defined searches and JavaScript functions. Optional menu titles (standard or custom), submenus, separators, standard starting and/or ending entries.
    Zip file (56K) includes source .fm file and MenuEntries.ini file.
  • Chapter Tabs, Next/Previous Chapter, Super Next/Previous Page, Chapter Title Bookmarks (cross-file): 1 2 3 4 5 6 (cross-linked PDFs; ~100K each; Acrobat/Reader 5 required).
    Zip file (614K) includes PDFs, source .fm files, project & menu files.
  • Buttons and in-line links highlighted when the button/link area is entered (PDF: 402K, distilled with TimeSavers+Form Assistant+Navigation Assistant, custom shortcuts)