How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

[Phil Heron]

Michael,

If I remember correctly, typing a string such as \d in a Frame dialog box is a way of typing a special character, in this case the dagger character.

I believe the way to put the directory separator in is to use the unix-style /, ie a forward slash like this:

message openfile "W:/Schadstoffliteratur/Dioxine/Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf"

Hope this helps,

Phil Heron
Technical Writer - CODA

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Michael Böhme
Sent: 23 September 2008 11:59
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

Hallo,
I have a Problem which has hopefully an easy solution. I try to make Hyperlinks to open an other PDF on my harddisk.

I write:
message openfile "W:\Schadstoffliteratur\Dioxine\Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf"

Than Framemaker convert this  to:
message openfile "W:\Schadstoffliteratur‡ioxine\Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf"

Looking in the MIF I see the following:
<MText `message openfile "W:\\Schadstoffliteratur‡ioxine\\Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf"'>

The resulting Link does not work, of course. When I repair the link in the MIF manually, open it in FM, print to PDF, it works fine:
<MText `message openfile "W:\\ElbeSchadstoffliteratur\\Dioxine\\Attempt to establish benchmarks for Dioxins.pdf"'>

But I may not touch the Link in Framemaker again. I want to make hundreds of similar Links, so I am looking for a solution.

How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link?

Michael
FM 8.0p277

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