Removing x-refs before generating PDFs

[Evanth, Henrik]

Hi Stephen,

This is true. What I forgot to mention is that this external link is most often a word in a sentence (most often this is a reference to an MMI), which means that the cross-reference text needs to remain in the file.

But wait:

>> "The idea that comes to my mind is to use conditional markers to activate/disactivate the cross-references."

Is it possible to make the cross-reference functionality itself conditional and not just the cross-reference. How would I do that? Because that would solve my problem. 

Best Regards
/Henrik 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen O'Brien [mailto:sobrien at innovmetric.com] 
Sent: måndag den 26 juni 2006 14:43
To: Evanth, Henrik; framers at FrameUsers.com
Subject: Re: Removing x-refs before generating PDFs

Hi Evanth,

The idea that comes to my mind is to use conditional markers to activate/disactivate the cross-references. No need to recopy any files and you keep your x-refs.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.



At 08:07 AM 6/26/2006, Evanth, Henrik wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>In my FrameMaker book, I have cross-references within the book (using a 
>cross-reference format called "A") as well as cross-references to an 
>external file that is not included in the book (using a cross-reference 
>format called "B"). When I create a PDF, I don't want the 
>cross-references to the external file to become active links while of 
>course the internal links (format "A") should be clickable.
>
>Is there an easy way of doing this?
>
>Today I have to copy the complete book. Then I transform all 
>cross-references of type B (external file) to editable text. Then I 
>create the PDF. This works but it is cumbersome to make a copy of the 
>book each time and then just throw the copies away after the PDF has 
>been generated. In my source I don't want to remove the links to the 
>external FM file.
>
>Best Regards
>/Henrik
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