Rename PDF, xrefs stop working (more)

[Shlomo Perets]

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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