Framemaker to PDF - Linking Problem

[Doug]

If you don't have the book file open, FrameMaker creates PDF links to the
PDF files named after the file (that is, it creates links to file_name.pdf
rather than to book_name.pdf).  This makes sense.  After all, FrameMaker has
no way of knowing which book the file belongs to if the book is not open.
I'm not sure what happens if you have two different books open that
reference the same file.

On 7/10/07, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, since no one else has responded... yes, for the links to work,
> you do need to have all the destination files open when you build the
> book PDF. However, I don't know _why_. I suspect it's because FM
> passes specific (a named location) location info into Acrobat that is
> somehow checked for validity, but I don't _know_ that.
>
> Cheers,
> Art
>
> On 7/10/07, Amy Harvey <aharvey at enercon.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We work on large sets of documentation that require links between
> various Chapters, Sections, Books, etc.
> > Our final deliverables are in PDF format.
> >
> > When creating the PDF file for a specific book, we have found that for
> some reason, we need to open ALL of the other book files that are linked to
> the current book in order for the links to work.
> >
> > For example, if I'm printing the PDF for Section 5.3 book, and it
> contains links to sections 2.3 and 7.8, we need to open the book files for
> 2.3 and 7.8 to print or sometimes the links don't work.
> >
> > An example of the link verbage we are using in the marker is:
> > gotolink ../CHAP02/ER_SEC02_03.fm:sec231
> >
> > Is this typical ?    Since they are relative links, I really don't
> understand why Framemaker would require all of the linked files to be open
> when creating the book.
> >
> > And... it only doesn't work "sometimes"....
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Amy Harvey
> > Enercon Service, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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