Thanks to Rick Stever for providing insight to my plight. Indeed, the answer
was to include an asterisk instead of a filename.
As you can see from my email, I sent it on Oct 31, but it was not posted until
last week (when I was on vacation). Has anyone else experienced this kind of
delay in
At 08:39 -0500 22/11/06, Art Campbell wrote:
Carol, I haven't played with this, but in pre-7 versions, the file
name field could contain an asterisc, which FM interpreted by printing
each chapter_file.fm to a chapter_file.pdf. Might see if it still
works that way instead of typing in a file name.
At 12:45 -0500 23/11/06, Fred Ridder wrote:
The asterisk didn't go in the filename. What you needed to do was
use a single asterisk as a placeholder in the Print to File box so
that you're only specifying the path to the directory where the
PostScript files will be placed.
Duh! ;-)
But that
At 08:39 -0500 22/11/06, Art Campbell wrote:
>Carol, I haven't played with this, but in pre-7 versions, the file
>name field could contain an asterisc, which FM interpreted by printing
>each chapter_file.fm to a chapter_file.pdf. Might see if it still
>works that way instead of typing in a file
At 12:45 -0500 23/11/06, Fred Ridder wrote:
>The asterisk didn't go in the filename. What you needed to do was
>use a single asterisk as a placeholder in the "Print to File" box so
>that you're only specifying the path to the directory where the
>PostScript files will be placed.
Duh! ;-)
>But
Carol,
Do you want to make separate PDF files for each document in the book? I
would assume that for the references to work, all the PDFs would have to be
in the same directory. Otherwise, links would break.
If you don't need separate PDF files, deselect Save Book as... Separate
File for
Carol, I haven't played with this, but in pre-7 versions, the file
name field could contain an asterisc, which FM interpreted by printing
each chapter_file.fm to a chapter_file.pdf. Might see if it still
works that way instead of typing in a file name.
Art
On 10/31/06, Carol Wade [EMAIL
Carol,
Do you want to make separate PDF files for each document in the book? I
would assume that for the references to work, all the PDFs would have to be
in the same directory. Otherwise, links would break.
If you don't need separate PDF files, deselect "Save Book as... Separate
File for
Carol, I haven't played with this, but in pre-7 versions, the file
name field could contain an asterisc, which FM interpreted by printing
each chapter_file.fm to a chapter_file.pdf. Might see if it still
works that way instead of typing in a file name.
Art
On 10/31/06, Carol Wade wrote:
> I
I have identified the problem I was having with links not working among
separate PDFs. The problem resulted from generating the PDFs from a
FrameMaker book file. I must not understand the Print dialog box option
"Save Book as... Separate File for each document." Although this does
create separate
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