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[JimColville]

I use Illustrator to create SVG files used in Technical Documentation that is distributed and accessed with a web browser. One of my projects uses maps of various countries as a front page to access equipmet lists at various sites. The user clicks on the map and is taken to the list etc. I would like this list to appear in a new explorer window. In Illustrator, I use the Attributes palette to enter the URL, image map 'Rectangle' etc. However, I can't find a way to tell it to open that URL in a new window. Does anyone know if this can be done ? I know that I can get the required result by using Java in the SVG interactivity palette; however, I would like to keep that as a last resort due to problems that causes with the stand-alone browser we use for our distributed CDs.
Cheers..... Jim Colville

 

[fizzak]

The only way I could figure out how to do this...

Open your final SVG file in Notepad.
Crtl-F and type in HREF= to find the first XHTML link.

You will see code like this
<a xlink:href="

http://www.whatever.com">

Add this to end of the href code:
target= "_blank">
(This is basic HTML code to open in new window)

So...
<a xlink:href="

http://www.whatever.com"

target= "_blank">

In notepad hit F3 go to the next HREF code link.

 

[JimColville]

Thanks fizzak,
We'll do this. There is the limitation that anytime I work on the drawing in Illustrator it will rewrite the SVG when I save it. However, we will produce a script to change it back to the way we want. Thanks again for the input