I have an html list (not a real list, just single lines with soft returns) and each time I try to add a Link To PDf to a line all the text after it gets messed up and the link text is moved into the text below it.
I never quite understood why this action is so different than the other linking options and I find it hard to put it exactly where I want it to go.
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Could you post a link to the troubled page? Maybe we can spot
something in the generated HTML that will offer a clue.
Walter
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Robert Bovasso wrote:
I have an html list (not a real list, just single lines with soft
returns) and each time I try to add a Link To PDf to a line all the
text after it gets messed up and the link text is moved into the
text below it.
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Well, I can’t post the file, but it looks like the action doesn’t like a shift-return, but hard returns leave too much space between lines.
Any suggestions?
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Try adding a space after the inline Action and before your shift-
return. There’s a lot of code in that Action that tries to figure out
text style from the surrounding characters, perhaps it’s being thrown
off by the break.
Walter
On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Robert Bovasso wrote:
Well, I can’t post the file, but it looks like the action doesn’t
like a shift-return, but hard returns leave too much space between
lines.Any suggestions?
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That didn’t seem to work, either. Plus, for no reason I can see, the whole box loses text and gets out of whack.
It’s basically, an html box with two html boxes inside. The text is html (that I vae a basic body text on).
Why doe FW treat file links so differntly than other links? If this were handled like others, I can just select the text, go down to the Link popup and choose a file to link to.
I think it’s the placement of the Action that’s messing things up.
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Couldn’t I just put the PDFs in my resources folder and link them through the Link pop up at the bottom of the window?
Or, will they get “lost” once I upload my site?
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OK, well, the conclusion I’ve come to (and one I don’t like) is that when you stack PDF (or file, I would imagine) downloads in a list, there is no way to alter the space between them. You just keep inserting, and they just fall after each other.
Wish there was a way to change that…
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You would need to use an upload Action (there are two here):
http://www.softpress.com/kb/article.php?id=456
http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=beta
or upload the files manually and in both cases link to them through
the hyperlink dialog.
Hope this helps.
Joe
On 28 Jul 2008, at 20:34, Robert Bovasso wrote:
Couldn’t I just put the PDFs in my resources folder and link them
through the Link pop up at the bottom of the window?Or, will they get “lost” once I upload my site?
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How are you adding them to the page? You can either add them inline
(as if they were text, double click in an HTML item and go to
Insert>Action Item) or by just having an item floating on the page so
you can drag it around anywhere you want.
Joe
On 28 Jul 2008, at 22:12, Robert Bovasso wrote:
OK, well, the conclusion I’ve come to (and one I don’t like) is that
when you stack PDF (or file, I would imagine) downloads in a list,
there is no way to alter the space between them. You just keep
inserting, and they just fall after each other.Wish there was a way to change that…
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I’m using the insert method figuring they would follow how the style of the section would go.
Do I actually need either of those Actions you linked to or can
I manually put the PDFs in the Resource and link to them, with FW upload them with everything else in the normal fashion?
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Placing things in the Resources folder will only work locally. You
need to place them in the equivalent area on the server yourself (or
use the Actions) for the links to work remotely.
Sounds like you should just be able to enter the items inline though.
I haven’t come across any problems of doing it that way before.
Joe
On 28 Jul 2008, at 22:24, Robert Bovasso wrote:
I’m using the insert method figuring they would follow how the style
of the section would go.Do I actually need either of those Actions you linked to or can
I manually put the PDFs in the Resource and link to them, with FW
upload them with everything else in the normal fashion?
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Well, I can’t post the file, but it looks like the action doesn’t like a shift-return, but hard returns leave too much space between lines.
Do you not have a bit of server space that you can tag this page onto
Anyway - is this what you are trying to achieve?
http://www.deltadzine.net/test/pdflist.html
David
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Yeah, that’s pretty much what I want. I can’t get the spacing correct.
In fact, in FW, there’s a large space between each action, but in a browser it looks correct, but I’ve had to make my box so much bigger in FW to get it to fit, that when viewed in a browser, there’s now extra space below my action downloads.
It still seems like a lot of extra work to link to files using Actions. There must be an easier way that can be implemented in a future update.
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My example is simply the text then shift+return, insert link to pdf, space, shift+return, insert link to pdf, space, shift+return etc…
The whole text block can then be styled after
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Wow! That did NOT work for me before…I swear.
I guess the whole trick is that extra space.
Well, now that I did the “wrong” way, how can I get my curser in there to put in the extra spaces and do it correctly?
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Double click in the html box til your cursor flashes then use the left or right arrows to move to the spot that you want those spaces.
David
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As a general rule of thumb with any action that is inserted in a run of text (current date being a prime example) if you have spaces between the action and the text either side then the action will take on the style of the surrounding text.
David
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OK, thanks.
And thanks to all for your help!
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