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Help!! Hyperlinks to other PDFs and/or online help topics

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From: Brian Dellascio
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:00
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Hello all:

I hope someone around here has done what I'm looking to do. I've been assigned to design three quick reference cards for my company. I've been pushing to use InDesign, because something like FrameMaker is too robust and doesn't have the design flexibility that InDesign offers. We use FrameMaker for our long documentation, and I believe we use Robohelp for our online help generation.

Here's what they want to do: within the cards (which will be 1-4 page PDFs), they want to talk at a very high level about a number of topics, then provide a link at the end of each particular topic that points to the corresponding "full-blown" section of the online help system dedicated to that topic. That is where the user can get more robust and detailed information about that topic.

The other possibility would be that the links would link to a different PDF of a given manual's section.

Is there a way to accomplish either or both of these with InDesign? I've scoured the online forums, but have come up empty handed.

Any quick feedback would be greatly appreciated. I have to finish the three cards' layouts for our Beta release on August 18th.

Thanks in advance
Brian
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