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9.13 Publishing PDF Documents with Links using FSI
Pages Converter and FSI Server
The easiest way to add links to FSI Pages is using a source PDF document
containing hyperlinks. This way FSI Pages Converter prepares the required XML
data by gathering the link information from the PDF document.
FSI Server subsequently serves the XML data to FSI Pages.
PDF
with links
Image date
XML page data
Tiff with
IPTC data
PagesConverter
Server
Pages
1. Convert the source PDF document using FSI Pages Converter. Make sure
to check the «Include Links" option in the "Hyperlinks" option section. This
way FSI Pages Converter extracts link information from the PDF document.
Make sure to uncheck the "Enable XML Output " option in the "XML Output"
option section. This way FSI Pages Converter writes the XML data directly
to the IPTC data of the converted TIFF files.
2. Upload the TIFF files (containing the IPTC data) to a directory on FSI
Server
3. Go to FSI Server Interface and select the directory containing the TIFF files
4. Select "Publish to Web", "Publish as FSI Pages" Make sure to use a
configuration preset with links, e.g. "Catalog with links".
9.14 Providing XML page data to FSI Pages
There are three alternative ways to provide XML data like links for each page.
a) Using FSI Server and IPTC data fields
Image date
XML page data
Tiff with
IPTC data
Server
Pages
FSI Server is capable of
serving the
IPTC data
contained in an image file
to FSI Viewer (FSI Pages).
By
default
FSI
Pages
Converter
adds
the
required IPTC data to the output TIFF files. The IPTC data for each page can then
automatically be retrieved by FSI Pages using the FSI Server template system. This