I would agree, as when I send the files out ? all on the same drive ? everything works fine with relative paths.
But when they come back ? still all on the same drive ? they are returned with absolute paths. That?s my dilemma. The relative positions of the files don?t change ? but the paths become absolute anyway. Note that while my version control database is on a network drive, all files are checked out to a local drive when they are being worked on, so there is no network issue, at least on my end. Alison From: Paul Wilbraham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:30 AM To: Alison Craig; 'framers at lists.frameusers.com'; Harvey, Peggy Subject: RE: Relative vs. absolute links 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<mailto: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> [mailto:[email protected]] 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/d02f7fb6/attachment.html>
