Links in framemaker source files to PDFs?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 12:50 -0600 21/6/07, Van Boening, Tammy wrote:

>How do I need to set up my links in the Framemaker file and is there
>anything special that I need to do to the PDFs?

No-one else seems to have picked this up, so...

As far as I can remember, FrameMaker's message client works with absolute pathnames. Therefore, if you use a file name only [no path] in your hypertext marker, all the final PDFs must reside in the same folder for the links to work. If they do not reside in the same folder, then the message client pathnames must be full and absolute. Clearly this will make your resulting PDF file set very, very non-portable, so it would be much preferable to arrange for all linked files to end up in the same directory if possible. This would allow, for example, your CD-ROM file set to be copied onto a local drive and still work, as long as the relative locations of the component PDFs did not change.

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Steve