Creating image maps

Building image maps manually is tedious and time-consuming, but with WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition, the process is automated. You build hypertext in your FrameMaker files to create an image map in your output. The image map makes different areas of your graphic point to different links. Here's how to do it:

  1. In the anchored frame, draw a text column on top of the graphic that covers an area where you want a hyperlink.
  2. In the text column, insert a hyperlink that points to the location you want to link to. You can use either:
  3. gotolink filename:linkname 
     

    or

    message URL http://www.yourURLhere.com
  4. If you're using the gotolink command, insert a hypertext marker at the target location. It should look like this:
  5. newlink linkname 
    
  6. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have defined all the areas you need.
  7. Save your FrameMaker file and regenerate the project. Publisher automatically creates all the information required to generate the image map.

In addition to the image map, you can create pop-up labels for each hotspot. These are supported in HTML version 4.0 (but not earlier versions), so only the newest browsers will display these labels. Here's how to create them:

  1. Create a custom marker type in your FrameMaker documents. You must name it ImageAreaAltText so that it automaps to the corresponding Publisher marker style.
  2. In each text column that defines a hotspot, insert an ImageAreaAltText marker with the text that you want to use as the alternate text.
  3. Save your FrameMaker file and regenerate your project.

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