At 05:34 +0100 27/6/07, I wrote: >As far as I can remember, FrameMaker's message client works with absolute >pathnames. Therefore, if you use a file name only [no path] in your hypertext >marker, all the final PDFs must reside in the same folder for the links to >work. If they do not reside in the same folder, then the message client >pathnames must be full and absolute. Clearly this will make your resulting PDF >file set very, very non-portable, so it would be much preferable to arrange >for all linked files to end up in the same directory if possible. This would >allow, for example, your CD-ROM file set to be copied onto a local drive and >still work, as long as the relative locations of the component PDFs did not >change.
...but I was wrong: At 11:35 -0500 27/6/07, Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D. wrote: >As much as I hate to disagree, the hypertext linking can be done with relative >pathnames as well. I just checked, and "message openfile >_Addendum/Spreadsheets/Conversions.xls" works to open a spreadsheet in a >supplemental folder sent along with the pdf. Always happy to learn new stuff about FrameMaker :-) However, the main point I was trying to make was that a hard-coded pathname will limit portability. -- Steve
