32 Ways to Improve PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants

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32 Ways to Improve Your PDFs with TimeSavers/Assistants

Improve your PDFs (authored in FrameMaker) using features available with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers or Assistants (TimeSavers add-ons) -- easily, automatically and consistently!

1. Control the document title effectively, and display it in the title bar
2. Improve bookmark hierarchy and visibility
3. Add bookmarks to e-mail feedback or web page
4. Make bookmark text easy to identify
5. Add direct Table/Figure bookmarks and group these together
6. Indicate new/updated features with quick-access bookmarks
7. Use popup menus to display additional, context-related choices
8. Display additional information without switching to a different page/file
9. Use Acrobat notes to provide additional information
10. Set specific cross-PDF links to open a new window
11. Author attractive PDF presentations
12. Specify consistent PDF named destinations
13. Add bookmarks/links to movies or audio files
14. Reduce PDF file size by removing unused named destinations
15. Specify any Acrobat action for links/bookmarks/pages
16. Include pre-defined search queries through bookmarks or links 17. Define focused links/bookmarks to external PDFs or help files
18. Embed (attach) files in PDFs
19. Control visual properties of links
20. Set page labels
21. Integrate 3D models in product documentation
22. Create interactive/fillable PDF forms
23. Enhance interactivity/search with buttons and and text fields
24. Attach a search index to your PDFs
25. Create interactive PDF checklists
26. Enable PDFs for user input
27. Set up effective cross-document navigation
28. Automatically create next/previous topic links
29. Optimally display screen captures
30. Add interactive embedded indexes
31. Enable word highlighting
32. Let users save search queries

"I love these PDF enhancements. Our customers' first impression of our product is our PDF documentation and we like the PDFs to look very sharp." -- George N. Lawrence, Applied Optics Research, Woodland, WA

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Effective PDF Bookmarks with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers
July 21, 2009 [Register]
How to Improve bookmark hierarchy and visibility of FrameMaker-generated bookmarks, and how to easily add useful bookmarks through hypertext markers (with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers) -- pointing to other PDFs or web pages, instantly providing e-mail feedback, launching external files, starting Acrobat/Reader actions (eg common search phrases) and much more.

Enhancing PDFs with Form Fields (with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers + Form Assistant)
August 18, 2009 [Register]
PDF form fields are typically associated with forms as a data collection tool (eg purchase orders or registration forms). However, form fields can serve as an underlying mechanism for other interactive features.
Form Assistant (FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers add-on) enables you to include the definitions of PDF fields in FrameMaker through hypertext markers, so that they are automatically present in the PDF file: text fields, check boxes, buttons, lists and digital signatures, with complete control over field properties.