Thanks to all for your answers!
Doug ... so in other words, in the following example:
"gotolink ../CHAP02/ER_SEC02_03.fm:sec231" (Where sec231 is a newlink marker
in that document...)
Frame would creake a link in the pdf file to a file named: "ER_SEC02_03.pdf "?
Would it do anything with the newlink marker (would it try to find that marker
in the document for the exact link location?... ie - would it create the link
to the newlink marker "sec231" within the ER_SEC02_03.pdf ?)
-Amy
On Tue Jul 10 16:14 , Doug sent:
>If you don't have the book file open, FrameMaker creates PDF links to the PDF
>files named after the file (that is, it creates links to?file_name.pdf rather
>than to book_name.pdf).? This makes sense.? After all, FrameMaker has no way
>of knowing which book the file belongs to if the book is not open.? I'm not
>sure what happens if you have two different books open that reference the same
>file.
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>On 7/10/07, Art Campbell wrote:
>Well, since no one else has responded... yes, for the links to work,
>you do need to have all the destination files open when you build the
>
>book PDF. However, I don't know _why_. I suspect it's because FM
>passes specific (a named location) location info into Acrobat that is
>somehow checked for validity, but I don't _know_ that.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Art
>
>On 7/10/07, Amy Harvey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We work on large sets of documentation that require links between various
>> Chapters, Sections, Books, etc.
>
>> Our final deliverables are in PDF format.
>>
>> When creating the PDF file for a specific book, we have found that for some
>> reason, we need to open ALL of the other book files that are linked to the
>> current book in order for the links to work.
>
>>
>> For example, if I'm printing the PDF for Section 5.3 book, and it contains
>> links to sections 2.3 and 7.8, we need to open the book files for 2.3 and
>> 7.8 to print or sometimes the links don't work.
>
>>
>> An example of the link verbage we are using in the marker is:
>> gotolink ../CHAP02/ER_SEC02_03.fm:sec231
>>
>> Is this typical ?Since they are relative links, I really don't
>> understand why Framemaker would require all of the linked files to be open
>> when creating the book.
>
>>
>> And... it only doesn't work "sometimes"
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Amy Harvey
>> Enercon Service, Inc.
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