RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
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Re: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
We miss Bruce and his great plugins. I wish there were an ImpGraph for FM10. There is now a free archive script available for FrameMaker 10 at this address, but it won't help with older versions: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/07/create-a-book-packager-using-extendscript.html ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
Terri Schultz wrote: > Chris Despopoulos has several handy (and free!) FrameMaker Utilities, > one of which is Archive, which will collect all of the (properly) > linked graphics in an FM book/file. > > Here is the website: > > http://www.cudspan.net/ > > I highly recommend Archive, TOC Breaker, and PGF Override. I use them > almost every day, and have done so for years. Correction: Archive was developed by the late Bruce Foster and is no longer available. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 -- ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
Hi Meg To prevent this, use Windows Explorer to copy your files instead of Save As. That seems to work ok. Cheers Rebecca >>> meg miranda 18/02/12 07:09 >>> Number 2 is what I did. Yup that was it. Thanks Rick. Much appreciated. -meg From: Rick Quatro To: 'meg miranda' ; framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs Hi Meg, There are two ways that this can happen: 1) You import images from another drive or network volume; this is unlikely in your case. 2) You Save As the FrameMaker document from one drive or volume to another. This will create absolute paths to the graphics. This may be what happened to you. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. *** 585-283-5045 *** NEW NUMBER r...@frameexpert.com http://www.frameexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of meg miranda Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:43 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs Hi all, We're using Frame 10 and doing unstructured books. We have source files out on a network drive, but we do often copy the files to our local machines so that we can work remotely and offline on them. So now I have a book out on the network drive that somehow is referencing images on c:\dic\mybook\userguide\images\button.jpg instead of \images\button.jpg. A similar thing has happened to some of the x-refs in 3 of the chapters. We are getting specific references instead of relative references. Does anyone have any suggestions why this behavior is happening? or how to fix it without having to open each chapter file and repoint the graphic directory? I think I'm most conserned about understanding why it is happening, so that I can tell our team how to avoid this problem. thanks, meg NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
Number 2 is what I did. Yup that was it. Thanks Rick. Much appreciated. -meg From: Rick Quatro To: 'meg miranda' ; framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:51 AM Subject: RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs Hi Meg, There are two ways that this can happen: 1) You import images from another drive or network volume; this is unlikely in your case. 2) You Save As the FrameMaker document from one drive or volume to another. This will create absolute paths to the graphics. This may be what happened to you. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. *** 585-283-5045 *** NEW NUMBER r...@frameexpert.com http://www.frameexpert.com From:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of meg miranda Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:43 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs Hi all, We're using Frame 10 and doing unstructured books. We have source files out on a network drive, but we do often copy the files to our local machines so that we can work remotely and offline on them. So now I have a book out on the network drive that somehow is referencing images on c:\dic\mybook\userguide\images\button.jpg instead of \images\button.jpg. A similar thing has happened to some of the x-refs in 3 of the chapters. We are getting specific references instead of relative references. Does anyone have any suggestions why this behavior is happening? or how to fix it without having to open each chapter file and repoint the graphic directory? I think I'm most conserned about understanding why it is happening, so that I can tell our team how to avoid this problem. thanks, meg___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
>From my experiences, Meg, and from what other people have told me, FrameMaker >will create absolute paths when you work on a remote drive. Is using source control software an option for you for sharing files with other writers instead of posting files to your network? Nadine > > From: Rick Quatro >To: 'meg miranda' ; framers@lists.frameusers.com >Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:51:55 AM >Subject: RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs > > >Hi Meg, > >There are two ways that this can happen: > >1) You import images from another drive or network volume; this is unlikely in >your case. > >2) You Save As the FrameMaker document from one drive or volume to another. >This will create absolute paths to the graphics. This may be what happened to >you. > >Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much. > >Rick > >Rick Quatro >Carmen Publishing Inc. >*** 585-283-5045 *** NEW NUMBER >r...@frameexpert.com >http://www.frameexpert.com > > > >From:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com >[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of meg miranda >Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:43 PM >To: framers@lists.frameusers.com >Subject: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs > >Hi all, > >We're using Frame 10 and doing unstructured books. > >We have source files out on a network drive, but we do often copy the files to >our local machines so that we can work remotely and offline on them. > >So now I have a book out on the network drive that somehow is referencing >images on c:\dic\mybook\userguide\images\button.jpg instead of >\images\button.jpg. A similar thing has happened to some of the x-refs in 3 >of the chapters. We are getting specific references instead of relative >references. > >Does anyone have any suggestions why this behavior is happening? or how to fix >it without having to open each chapter file and repoint the graphic directory? > >I think I'm most conserned about understanding why it is happening, so that I >can tell our team how to avoid this problem. > >thanks, >meg >___ > > >You are currently subscribed to framers as generic...@yahoo.ca. > >Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/generic668%40yahoo.ca > >Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > >___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
Hi Meg, There are two ways that this can happen: 1) You import images from another drive or network volume; this is unlikely in your case. 2) You Save As the FrameMaker document from one drive or volume to another. This will create absolute paths to the graphics. This may be what happened to you. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. *** 585-283-5045 *** NEW NUMBER r...@frameexpert.com http://www.frameexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of meg miranda Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:43 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs Hi all, We're using Frame 10 and doing unstructured books. We have source files out on a network drive, but we do often copy the files to our local machines so that we can work remotely and offline on them. So now I have a book out on the network drive that somehow is referencing images on c:\dic\mybook\userguide\images\button.jpg instead of \images\button.jpg. A similar thing has happened to some of the x-refs in 3 of the chapters. We are getting specific references instead of relative references. Does anyone have any suggestions why this behavior is happening? or how to fix it without having to open each chapter file and repoint the graphic directory? I think I'm most conserned about understanding why it is happening, so that I can tell our team how to avoid this problem. thanks, meg ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
Miranda, Why it is happening is probably because some of the images weren't replaced with the new pointers. The good thing is it's an easy fix (the following works with Frame 7.2, so I am guessing that it will work with Frame 10). 1. Make sure the network images folder contains ALL of the images. 2. Make sure the local path doesn't exist. If the folder is still there, change the folder name, or delete it. The safe way is to rename it. This way Frame can't automatically find the folder, and if an image is missing from the network folder you can manually copy it out to the network folder. 3. Open the book file, select all of the chapters, and press Enter to open all chapters. 4. At the first missing image file, redirect it to the network folder. That chapter, and all remaining chapters, that have incorrect image folder links should automatically readjust to the network images folder. --- On Thu, 2/16/12, meg miranda wrote: From: meg miranda Subject: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 8:43 PM Hi all, We're using Frame 10 and doing unstructured books. We have source files out on a network drive, but we do often copy the files to our local machines so that we can work remotely and offline on them. So now I have a book out on the network drive that somehow is referencing images on c:\dic\mybook\userguide\images\button.jpg instead of \images\button.jpg. A similar thing has happened to some of the x-refs in 3 of the chapters. We are getting specific references instead of relative references. Does anyone have any suggestions why this behavior is happening? or how to fix it without having to open each chapter file and repoint the graphic directory? I think I'm most conserned about understanding why it is happening, so that I can tell our team how to avoid this problem. thanks,meg -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as dspre...@yahoo.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dspreadb%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
