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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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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