Michael B?hme wrote: > Hallo, > I have a Problem which has hopefully an easy solution. I try to make > Hyperlinks to open an other PDF on my harddisk. > > I write: > message openfile "W:\Schadstoffliteratur\Dioxine\Attempt to establish > benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf" > > Than Framemaker convert this to: > message openfile "W:\Schadstoffliteratur?ioxine\Attempt to establish > benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf" > > Looking in the MIF I see the following: > <MText `message openfile "W:\\Schadstoffliteratur???ioxine\\Attempt to > establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf"'> > > The resulting Link does not work, of course. When I repair the link in the > MIF manually, open it in FM, print to PDF, it works fine: > <MText `message openfile "W:\\ElbeSchadstoffliteratur\\Dioxine\\Attempt to > establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf"'> > > But I may not touch the Link in Framemaker again. I want to make hundreds of > similar Links, so I am looking for a solution. > > How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link? > > Michael > FM 8.0p277 >
Your question was answered two days ago by Rick Quatro (atta boy, Rick!): Hi Richard, Use forward slashes instead of backslashes in the Hypertext markers. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Win XP SP2, P4 Extreme Ed. 3.46GHz + 3.47GHz 2GB, FM 8.0p277 > > > > Thanks to Rick Quattro, I am now aware of the backslash issue in dialog > boxes and have a workaround within scripts. However, I need to create an > hypertext command and do not know how to work around this issue. The > hypertext command ?openlink > D:\Docs\Products\CARDIO\DAR-9400f\M517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops > Manuals_v3.0\D90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348? becomes ?openlink > D:?ocs\Products\CARDIO?AR-9400f\sm517-E063L-E099D_DAR-9400f Ops > Manuals_v3.0?90+94_02-Overview.fm:2 998348? where ?\D? becomes ??? and ?\M? > becomes ?\sm?. If I use the ?openObjectId? command, the backslashes are not > replaced but the link does not work. > > > > Does anyone knows a good work around for this issue? > > > > Thanks, > > Richard Pesant -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." ? George Orwell
