FW: Printing Chapters to Separate files; Was: Links not working in Adobe

[Carol Wade]

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 getting emails posted? Or is this perhaps a problem with my outgoing mail server?
 
It also turns out -- as many of you no doubt know -- that Save As PDF was broken in 7.0 and earlier releases, but a patch is now available that enables this functionality.

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From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
Sent: Wed 11/22/2006 6:39 AM
To: Carol Wade
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Printing Chapters to Separate files; Was: Links not working in Adobe



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 <Carol.Wade at healthlanguage.com> wrote:
> 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 PDFs, the links all reference the filename entered in
> the box "Print to File." Obviously then the links are then broken.
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> Can anyone explain to me what I am misunderstanding or tell me how to
> make this work?
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> From: Carol Wade
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:30 AM
> To: 'framers at lists.frameusers.com.'
> Subject: RE: Links not working in Adobe
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> I should clarify that the crossreferences referred to in my earlier
> email have nothing to do with index entries.
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> Thanks,
>
> Carol
>
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> From: Carol Wade
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:26 AM
> To: 'framers at lists.frameusers.com.'
> Subject: Links not working in Adobe
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> I have created separate FrameMaker documents that cross-reference each
> other. At a point, the links were working in the generated PDFs (Named
> Destinations and Generate Actobat Data are selected). Now, none of them
> work. (I have now added crossreferences to the master pages, but don't
> think this has anything to do with the problem.)
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> It seems that I must be doing something wrong that should be obvious,
> such as not selecting Named Destinations and Generate Actobat Data, but
> I don't know what else to look for.
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> I converted a document to MIF, and it appears that at least one path is
> incorrect, if that is what is meat by "<XRefSrcFile
> `<c\>MasterIndex.fm'>," because the absoulte path whould be
> c:\CustomerDocs\NewUserDocumentation. This is also wrong for a relative
> path, if "<c\>" resolves to "c:\."
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> I'm using FrameMaker 7.0 and Acrobat Distiller 7.0.7.
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> Thanks for any suggestions!
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> Carol
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