Cross references between books

[Callie Bertsche]

Thanks to both of you! A v. logical solution. Hmm, my files are so
nested, sub-optimal for inclusion...I wonder if I can change this with
an add-on like Timesavers...
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:51 PM
> To: Callie Bertsche
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Cross references between books
> 
> So to illustrate what Rick pointed out, if your FM files are 
> set up like this:
> 
>                                  Product
>                                       |
>                              -------------------
>                             |                   |
>                         Guide A       Guide B
> 
> Your PDFs, after you deliver them, have to be in the same 
> relative directories. They can't be moved, or the links will break.
> 
> Art
> 
> Art Campbell
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> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Rick Quatro 
> <frameexpert at truevine.net> wrote:
> > 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
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> >
> > ----- 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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