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Liven up your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants
1. Liven Up Your PDFs
With FrameMaker-to-Acrobat
TimeSavers + Assistants
Shlomo Perets, microtype.com
2. 1
Enhancing PDFs in Acrobat
■ Labor-intensive, repetitive process
■ Features added in Acrobat “disappear”
next time you distill / Save as PDF,
and must be recreated and tested again
3. 2
With TS: define once, use many!
■ All features described in this webinar
can be defined in your source FM
files using custom hypertext markers
■ Upon distilling with FM-to-Acrobat
TimeSavers + Assistants, corresponding
features are automatically present in
the PDFs produced
■ Update content in FrameMaker source
as needed, then distill or Save as PDF
4. 3
Additional info and examples
■ “36 Ways to Improve Your PDFs
with TimeSavers/Assistants”
microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html
■ TimeSavers/Assistants Showcase
(where all PDFs demonstrated in
this webinar are available)
microtype.com/showcase.html
■ TimeSavers/Assistants order form
microtype.com/TimeSavers.html
5. 4
Related live online training
■ FrameMaker-to-PDF Advanced Tech
Feb 22-24 + March 10-11
■ Building a PDF Front-End Interface to
Document Collections March 2
■ Rich Media in PDFs with FM-to-Acrobat
TimeSavers+Multimedia Assistant
March 3
■ Visually-Oriented Documentation
March 8+9
7. 6
Page background
Page background (typically non-printing):
■ Light background to reduce screen glare,
or for screen-only graphics (e.g. buttons)
■ JPEG image inserted via hypertext
marker (typically on master pages)
■ Image is visible after distilling
(display in FrameMaker is faster
without the image display)
8. 7
Table shading
Can specify non-printing table shading
(heading or body rows)
9. 8
Transparency
■ Buttons or shapes (defined via hypertext
markers) can be transparent – adding
depth and visual interest
■ Control over opacity level, blending
mode
10. 9
Link highlight style
Globally control link attributes, such as:
■ Highlight style
■ Border line width, line style and color
■ Non-printing underline
11. 10
Bookmark visual properties
Bookmark color and font style
(plain, italic, bold, bold italic):
■ Improve perception of hierarchy
■ Emphasize bookmark automatically
based on text strings contained in
bookmark
12. 11
Popup menus (with Nav. Asst)
■ Variable pop-up menus help avoid
overloading screen/page with links
(e.g. “Related Topics”)
■ Menu entries can point to:
● Named destinations in current/other PDF
● Web-based PDFs (or destinations in such
PDFs), e-mail addresses, web sites
● Acrobat Search with specific phrases
● Acrobat JavaScript functions
13. 12
Popup menus (with Nav. Asst)
CONTINUED
■ Menu entries can also serve as headings
for sub-menu items
■ To facilitate editing, entries used in all
popup menus are stored in a single text
file (referenced during distilling)
15. 14
Highlight
■ Acrobat “highlight” annotations,
coloring specific terms; can control
color, style, printing
■ Multiple triggers:
● Placing the cursor on the highlighted text
displays the additional information as a
tooltip
● Double-clicking the highlighted word opens a
window with the additional text
16. 15
Acrobat notes
Can control note’s properties:
■ Icon
■ Title
■ Color
■ Location
■ Initial open/closed state
17. 16
Addt’l options with form fields
■ Buttons
● Visible on-screen, non-printing
● Multiple triggers (enter/exit area, click)
● Can be placed outside the page/slide
■ Display of additional information
● Tooltips/rollovers (e.g. home page, diagrams)
● Watermarks: print + no display or vice versa
■ Forms (optionally integrated in docs)
● Checklists / surveys / Evaluation / feedback
18. 17
Tooltips…
■ Provide brief information on
● Buttons or text fields
● Icons
● Image elements
■ Note: fixed tooltip font/size in Acrobat
19. 18
Rollovers…
■ Help reduce clutter when there is a lot of
information to display for various items
that are in close proximity to each other
■ Can display additional information for
a link, without leaving current page
■ Note: can control rollover font/size
(also text/background/border colors)
20. 19
Optional content display
■ Can display text/graphic shapes
selectively through Acrobat layers:
● Callouts
● Correct answers
● Specific areas (underline / strikethrough /
circle / box / shaded box)
● Change bars
■ Show/hide layers through bookmarks,
links, page actions or Acrobat UI
21. 20
Optional image display
■ Image sequences
● Can include image number display
■ Image display based on selection of
option / list item*
■ Image flipping*
■ Image rollover*
*Requires Form Assistant & Presentation Assistant
23. 22
Why use multimedia or 3D?
■ Accommodate different learning styles
(visual demo vs. text-intensive)
■ International audience;
reduces text translation/localization
■ “Internet generation”
■ Intuitive knowledge transfer to users
■ Processes/products can be difficult to
describe, but easily understood visually
24. 23
Multimedia can enhance…
■ Software documentation
● User guides ● Reference
● Online help ● Tutorials
■ Hardware documentation
● Installation ● User tutorials
● Service manuals ● Part catalogs
● Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals
(IETM)
25. 24
With FM-to-Acrobat TS …
Can create links/bookmarks pointing
to QuickTime/AVI movie files through
custom hypertext markers
26. 25
With Multimedia Assistant …
■ Link (local/web-based files) or
embed multimedia files
● Media can be in any of the formats supported
by Acrobat/Reader, including: FLV / SWF
[QT, MPEG, WMV, AVI, WAV, AIFF, MP3, JPEG]
■ Define movie playback location:
● Floating Window ● In Document
● Hidden (useful for ● Full Screen
sound-only media)
27. 26
Dynamic 3D in hardware docs
■ Demonstration of part installation/
replacement
■ Part identification
■ “Physically impossible” demonstrations
■ Showcasing of color and finish options,
configurations
28. 27
Dynamic 3D in hardware docs
CONTINUED
■ Empowering users so that they can
investigate features, moving parts:
● Dynamic viewpoints / exploded views
● Motion and functional simulations
● Cross-sections
● Measuring
● Translucency & transparency to emphasize
a part
29. 28
TimeSavers + 3D Asst
■ Embed U3D (ECMA1 and ECMA3)
through hypertext markers in FM files
● Define related views, bookmarks, links
or JavaScript
● Applies to all FM versions
● U3D-ECMA3 features mesh compression
(requires Acrobat/Reader 8 or higher)
30. 29
3D view, state, interactivity
■ Define 3D Views
● Lighting, background color, cross-section
views, render mode, zoom, node visibility
■ Control 3D annotation state
● Floating window
● Transparency
■ Specify 3D-related interactivity
● Optionally add links/bookmarks to 3D models,
3D views, model/part properties
32. 31
Presentation features
■ Specify page transitions
● Only apply to PDFs displayed in full-screen
mode
● Tip: slightly different backgrounds in different
pages (e.g. left/right) are essential for
effective transitions
■ Specify full-screen mode (hiding all user
interface items), or selectively control
UI items (e.g. suppress menus / toolbars)
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Presentation features
CONTINUED
■ Progress bar indicates current location;
can also be used interactively
■ Attach notes to specific slides,
displayed on demand
■ Create self-running presentations
● Specify default timing
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Page marks / notes
■ Users can mark pages of special interest
● Navigate to next/previous page mark
● Mark/unmark all pages
■ Users can add text notes on specific pages
● Navigate to next/previous page note;
directly access notes via a pop-up menu
● Generate e-mail message with all notes
● Display note text in Acrobat console
● Reset all notes
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Page marks / notes
CONTINUED
■ Can enable Reader save with notes
(Acrobat 8 or later)
■ Page marks/notes can be set to be
visible on screen (and non-printing),
or as visible & printing
■ Find function (Acrobat/Reader)
can be used to search text in notes
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Save search queries
■ Users can benefit from predefined
search phrases (Find/Search) or
queries (Advanced Search)
■ Users can save their own search queries,
with control over all search parameters
(useful when repeatedly performing the
same search operations)
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Embed files in PDF
■ End-users can open embedded files
or save them to the disk:
● Related files (in native format)
● Code fragments (thus avoiding copy/paste
problems)
■ Can optionally add links/bookmarks to
specific locations in embedded PDFs
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Random display
■ Random tip display
(e.g. through a bookmark)
■ “Display random page” button
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List/table sorting on-demand
■ Dynamic sorting of list / table columns
by end-users (in PDF file)