How to prevent Framemaker changing the Link

[Baruch Brodersen]

Michael,

Instead of using message openfile, try message URL.

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

You may need to add %20 html syntax for spaces in file names, but I'm not sure. If so, your marker would look like this:

message URL W:/Schadstoffliteratur/Dioxine/Attempt%20to%20establish%20benchmarks%20for%20Dioxins.pdf

If you are truly going to make hundreds of these markers, you might consider getting TimeSavers and use either the ~FileLink, ~PdfLink, or ~httpLink shortcuts.

Baruch Brodersen

 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Michael Böhme
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:59 PM
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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