Cross references between books

[Callie Bertsche]

Thanks, Fred.
 
I do want to nest my PDF's by one level, although not by the two levels
they are currently nested in my doc tree. I like your idea of putting
them in a common "build" folder, but since this changes my level
hierarchy, I will have to go through and fix every cross reference
between the books when I put them in this folder. I think I can save the
.fm file as a .mif, wash one level of the relative path, and resave it
as the .fm file, but I feel like that's not going to be a fun process if
I want fully operational PDFs very often. 
 
How do others address this...is it better to put all your books in one
folder to begin with?
 


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	From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com] 
	Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:16 PM
	To: Callie Bertsche; Art Campbell
	Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
	Subject: RE: Cross references between books
	
	
	Callie Bertsche responded to Art and Rick:
	
	> 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...
	 
	As long as you are generating a single PDF for each book (rather
than
	separate files for each chapter), you only have to ensure that
the 
	book files are in the same directory (with all the chapter files
in the
	correct locations relative to their respective book files, of
course).
	When you're making a single PDF from each book, FrameMaker and
	Acrobat only resolve the relative file locations at the book
level. It
	doesn't matter haw the component files are organized below the 
	book.
	 
	Inter-book links can get pretty messy. One approach that works
well
	is to make a duplicate of each book and all its components in a
special
	"build" directory for the sole purpose of making the PDFs. Once
the 
	PDFs have been checked, you can scrap the duplicate copies. And 
	Bruce Foster's Archive tool makes it relatively painless to
collect up
	and make duplicates of all the files that comprise each book.
	 
	-Fred Ridder