Links in framemaker source files to PDFs?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 05:34 +0100 27/6/07, I wrote:

>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.

...but I was wrong:

At 11:35 -0500 27/6/07, Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D. wrote:

>As much as I hate to disagree, the hypertext linking can be done with relative pathnames as well.  I just checked, and "message openfile _Addendum/Spreadsheets/Conversions.xls" works to open a spreadsheet in a supplemental folder sent along with the pdf.

Always happy to learn new stuff about FrameMaker :-) However, the main point I was trying to make was that a hard-coded pathname will limit portability.

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Steve