Rename PDF, xrefs stop working (more)

[Martin Polley]

Hi Shlomo,

You are a star. Thank you so much. I guess this means I'll have to 
modify a whole bunch of my FrameScript scripts now, though...

Thanks again,
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Shlomo Perets wrote:

> Martin,
>
> You wrote:
>
>> With some of the PDFs that I create, if I rename them, the
>> cross-references stop working, giving this error:
>>
>>     The specified file <old file name> does not exist.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Is there a workaround?
>> (Other than "don't rename the file"...)
>
>
> As I mentioned earlier, some of the older FrameMaker 5.x versions 
> specify internal links with a file name target, in which case renaming 
> the PDF causes bad links (even when the PDF is stand-alone, with no 
> links pointing to it from other PDFs).
>
> Upon further examination, I was able to reproduce the creation of PDF 
> links which use a filename even though the link is internal in 
> FrameMaker 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2, but only when "Save as PDF" was used.  In 
> the same tests, the problem was not encountered even once when 
> printing books to a .ps file and then distilling to PDF.
>
> Given this FrameMaker bug, we may have yet another reason to stick to 
> the original PDF file names, yet another reason to print to .ps rather 
> than Save as PDF, and yet another reason to test PDF links carefully...
>
>
> Shlomo Perets
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