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Subject:Re: PDF link checker? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:12:52 -0800
Evermap AutoBookmark (Windows only, $189 and up) generates a nice
report of link errors and does some other bookmark-related things I
don't need at the moment.
Still evaluating Debenu Aerialist (Mac and Windows, $495 and up), it
reported errors for valid links, could be I'm using it wrong so I
opened a support case. It does a very wide variety of other things.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
> The links work fine in Confluence, they're only broken in the exported
> PDF. They worked when I created the links but were broken by some
> change Atlassian made in an upgrade.
>
> I worked around the issue by searching for anchor macros.
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Richard Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net> wrote:
>> I guess most folks test links before they generate PDF.
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