Ah .. so aren't they "DITA" files rather than FM files? If they are DITA
files and are in the same ditamap which is built into the same book then
PDF .. then yes, just insert a fm-xref, select the target DITA file,
then select the target element, and you should be good to go!
But this doesn't work with FM files and especially with unstructured FM
files.
Cheers,
...scott
On 11/22/16 1:29 PM, Lin Sims wrote:
Oh, dear. I think I've misled you.
Both FM files are in the same book, which is turned into a single PDF
file. Everything is internal to that PDF file. I have done it before,
I'd simply forgotten I had to do this down on the server.
It's been a stressful couple of weeks, and my brain went to la-la land.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Scott Prentice <s...@leximation.com
<mailto:s...@leximation.com>> wrote:
Linking an xref (of fm-xref) to a target in a FM file will never
result in the link going to a PDF file that's generated from that
FM file. The only way for an xref to link to a PDF is to use an
external xref, and set the @href attribute to the file name of the
target PDF file (assuming the target PDF is in the same folder as
the PDF that you're linking from). Even then I'm not sure it'll
work, but in theory it should. If you want to link to a target
within a PDF, you'll need to add the necessary coding to the @href
attribute that will make that happen. Off hand I'm not sure what
that coding is, but in theory it's possible .. I think.
The problem with linking to the source FM file, is that it won't
know what the yet-to-be-created PDF file name is, and that's
really what you need .. the PDF links to a PDF, not to a FM file.
To create an external xref, insert an "xref" (not an fm-xref), and
choose the "External" button from that dialog. This will let you
specify the href (either a path/filename or a URL to the PDF
file), the link text, and the scope (choose "external"). This
should set the @format attribute to "pdf".
When you generate the book (and then the PDF) from the ditamap, if
the resulting PDF is placed in the same folder as the linked PDF,
the link in the "DITA" PDF should open the target "FM" PDF. Be
sure to select the "Convert xrefs to Hyperlinks" in the Book Build
Options dialog when generating the book from the ditamap in FMx.
I hope that helps.
...scott
On 11/22/16 12:15 PM, Lin Sims wrote:
I don't care if it works in Frame, as long as it works in the PDF!
And I suspect part of the problem is, as I said, because I was
not working in the fully structured environment we maintain on
our server. FM2016 is set to the structured interface on my
personal laptop (we all have it that way), but without the
EDD/DTD, I couldn't get anything meaningful in the elements list.
Once I used the server-installation of FM, I was able to add an
fm-xref, which is I think an internal definition(? or yours, I
forget which) that allows us to refer to paragraph tags as well
as elements for xrefs.
With luck, FM2015 will be installed on the server soon, and
things will do what I want them to do.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Scott Prentice
<s...@leximation.com <mailto:s...@leximation.com>> wrote:
FYI .. no, not possible (in a meaningful way) to create an
xref from a DITA file to an unstructured FM file. In theory
you could create an "external" xref to the FM file, but the
best you could hope for would be that it would open the FM
file in FM when the link was clicked (and likely that
wouldn't even work).
...scott
On 11/22/16 10:48 AM, Lin Sims wrote:
Never mind, figured out that (part of the problem) is
that I was working
with my local version of Frame, that has no links to an
EDD/DTD. The server
version (which does) works fine.
Now to get the tools guy to upgrade the server from FM12
to FM2015, so I
don't have to save down for everything.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Lin Sims
<ljsims...@gmail.com <mailto:ljsims...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Is this even possible? I've got both files open, but
when I try to insert
an xref, I only get the DITA menu and it won't let me
select anything but
elements. Which the other file doesn't have, of
course, it not being
DITA/xml.
I tried to email Scott directly, but I got a bounce,
so I obviously have
the wrong address.
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