Alison We find that graphics on the same drive as the original files are relative. Graphics on a separate drive are absolute.
--Paul > On 27 February 2013 at 18:09 Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com> > wrote: > > > I?d love to hear an explanation as I often have the same relative/absolute > issue with graphics and xrefs when my files are returned from the translators. > > > > Although in my case, everything is done in FM 9 or with the MIF 9 format ? so > my issue has nothing to do with Frame versioning. > > > > Alison > > > > PS: All FM files used to create the Book are in a single folder with graphics > in a series of subfolders. > > > > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Harvey, Peggy > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:41 AM > To: 'framers at lists.frameusers.com' > Subject: Relative vs. absolute links > > > > Hi Framers, > > > > FM 9 p 237 and FM 7 p576 > > > > Situation: Converting files between FM 7 and FM 9. All links and file > references are relative when I start but appear to become absolute when I > convert either way. > > > > I need to share files with a coworker at another site. I have FM 9 and he > has FM 7. The files, including the book file, are always all in a single > directory with a ?Graphics? subdirectory for all graphics. > > > > Here?s the sequence of events: > > > > 1) The files were originally in FM 7. (When I inherited them, at least.) > I put them on a network drive in that form, without converting them to FM 9. > > 2) My coworker edited the files, then put them back on the network drive > so I could do some clean up work on them. I moved them to a different network > drive to do the work. > > 3) I opened all of the files in FM 9, therefore converting them to FM 9 > format. I did my cleanup, including fixing the graphics path to the ?Graphics? > subfolder and fixing cross-reference links that were broken. In retrospect I > believe cross-references within the same file were okay but cross-references > between files were all broken. > > 4) When I finished my work I saved each individual file and the book file > in MIF 7.0 format. I saved the MIF files in a different folder than the FM 9 > files and copied the ?Graphics? directory to the same folder as the MIF files. > > 5) I opened each MIF file and the MIF book file in FM 7, then saved each > one in .fm (or .book) format. > > 6) I noticed that the book file seemed to be referring to the the > previous files ? the FM 9 files with the same names in the different folder. I > deleted all of the file references and added all of the FM 7 files that I?d > just created. So the FM 7 book file and individual files were all in the same > folder. > > 6) When I went to generate the book I got an error log that all of the > cross-references I?d fixed in FM 9 were unresolved again. Upon further > inspection I discovered all of the graphics had the wrong path, too ? they > were linked absolutely to the ?Graphics? folder in my FM 9 folder, not to the > relative ?Graphics? folder I?d copied to the FM 7 folder. > > > > My question: Why are the links and references to files (graphics and > cross-references) changing from relative to absolute paths when I convert from > one version to another? At least that?s what seems to be happening, either > when I open FM 7 files directly in FM 9 or when I go through the MIF to > convert from FM 9 back to FM 7. Anyone have any insight to this? > > > > FYI: Our final solution is we?re STRONGLY recommending my coworker > upgrade to FM 9 as soon as possible. I?m hoping he?ll be able to even though > Adobe is on FM 11 now. I?ve seen the traffic on the list about FM 11; I have > no desire to update to it at this time so I?m hoping he doesn?t have to, > either. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Peggy > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130227/a18b95b3/attachment.html>