 6  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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