Am using FM9/Win 7 64-bit.

I can do what I want to do in InDesign, QuarkXpress, and PageMaker, but for 
some reason this functionality appears to be absent in FrameMaker, which is 
utterly dain bramaged.

I have a placed image in multiple places in a FrameMaker document. The image is 
placed by reference, not embedded. I now want to link to a different graphic 
(annual updates).

Re-placing the image a zillion times is not an option, as the sizing and 
position is already set. I just want to change what FrameMaker is linking to.

For the life of me, I cannot find where or even if, I can do this.

The inelegant solution would be to simply move or rename the 
currently-linked-to file on the hard drive, and rename the new graphic to the 
same name as the old one. I do not like that option at all, as there are some 
instances in other documents that I still wish to link to the old image file.

Is FrameMaker's link handling really this clumsy and archaic? In the other 
applications I refer to above, I would either go to a links palette and change 
the destination or right-click on an image and relink it. In FrameMaker, the 
"Object Properties" dialog appears to only report the location of the 
referenced file, not allow you to change it.

What gives?


Dan Harding
Technical Specialist & Web Developer
University of Illinois Tax School
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