If you don't have the book file open, FrameMaker creates PDF links to the
PDF files named after the file (that is, it creates links to file_name.pdf
rather than to book_name.pdf). This makes sense. After all, FrameMaker has
no way of knowing which book the file belongs to if the book is not open.
I'm not sure what happens if you have two different books open that
reference the same file.
On 7/10/07, Art Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, since no one else has responded... yes, for the links to work,
you do need to have all the destination files open when you build the
book PDF. However, I don't know _why_. I suspect it's because FM
passes specific (a named location) location info into Acrobat that is
somehow checked for validity, but I don't _know_ that.
Cheers,
Art
On 7/10/07, Amy Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
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> We work on large sets of documentation that require links between
various Chapters, Sections, Books, etc.
> Our final deliverables are in PDF format.
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> When creating the PDF file for a specific book, we have found that for
some reason, we need to open ALL of the other book files that are linked to
the current book in order for the links to work.
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> For example, if I'm printing the PDF for Section 5.3 book, and it
contains links to sections 2.3 and 7.8, we need to open the book files for
2.3 and 7.8 to print or sometimes the links don't work.
>
> An example of the link verbage we are using in the marker is:
> gotolink ../CHAP02/ER_SEC02_03.fm:sec231
>
> Is this typical ? Since they are relative links, I really don't
understand why Framemaker would require all of the linked files to be open
when creating the book.
>
> And... it only doesn't work "sometimes"....
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Amy Harvey
> Enercon Service, Inc.
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