Cross references between books

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Callie,

The relative positions of the PDFs have to be the same as the relative 
positions of the FrameMaker documents in order for the links to work.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Callie Bertsche" <c.bertsche at tecplot.com>
To: <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: Cross references between books


> Hi Framers,
> I'm having trouble linking (doing cross-references) between books.
> X-refs work fine within each of books A and B, but when I try to
> cross-ref from book A to a specific header in the book B, it works fine
> in FM, but once I've PDFd the books I get this error: "There was an
> error opening this document. This file cannot be found." I've taken the
> following steps:
>
> 1. I have all files of both books open when building either book
> 2. I have replaced each cross reference in book A. I can open the
> cross-ref in FM by pressing CTRL-ALT and clicking on the cross ref in
> book A
> 3. I rebuilt book B as well as book A in case the cross ref tags had
> been missing from book B for some reason
>
> I do have one other factor that might acct for this: book B is one
> folder over from book A. To link to the title of book B, I successfully
> use a hypertext marker in the form "openlink
> ..\book_b_folder\book_b.pdf. However, I tried putting the two PDFs in
> one folder and it didn't help.
>
> Thanks for any sleuthing hints you can offer! If you don't mind, please
> reply to myself as well as the list, since I have the list set on digest
> mode.
>
> Cheers,
> Callie
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