Globally changing the path to referenced files

[David Schor]

Hi Menahem,

I would emphasize to your outsourcers that it's important that they do all
modifications within the full directory structure of the project. It's
obvious that in the case you described, the outsourcer edited the file in a
different location.

All the best,
David
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Menahem Rosen <Menahem.Rosen at objet.com>wrote:

> Background: I sent a FM book to a translation agency, which returned the
> translated files as a FM book. They convert to mif and use Trados for
> the translation, then convert back and place the files into my book.
> There were no problems opening the files, displaying graphics, and the
> cross-refs were good. Just as I had expected.
>
> Problem: After discovering a mistake in one of the files, I asked the
> agency to re-do it. That is, just one file of the book. They sent me the
> fixed file, but the references to all of the graphics (and x-refs) don't
> work, because the path of the referenced file (which is still right) is
> preceded by the entire path on the computer that generated the fm file.
>
> One solution: I saved the problematic file as mif, opened it in Notepad,
> and deleted the part of the path that I didn't need.
>
> There were a lot of graphics, so It took some time (even using "Replace
> All"), and Notepad nearly hung on me. When left for a while, it
> eventually came back to life and finished the job.
>
> Questions:
> 1. Is there a faster, better way to do this? From within FM?
> 2. I don't know how this problem was caused, but I would like to suggest
> something to the translation agency so that this can be avoided in the
> future. Any suggestions?
> 3. When experimenting in the mif (text) file, I noticed that the
> referenced graphics are represented by two consecutive lines. For
> example...
>   <ImportObFileDI
> `<c\>graphics<c\>E260<c\>Eden<c\>Photos<c\>Eden260_cropped.png'>
>   <ImportObFile `graphics/E260/Eden/Photos/Eden260_cropped.png'>
> What solved the problem for me was changing the first line
> [ImportObFileDI `<c\>graphics...]
> I did not have to change the second line. So, my question is: what is
> the second line for, and should I have changed this too? (Could it be
> for opening the files on Unix systems?)
>
> TIA for any tips & suggestions.
>
>
> Menahem Rosen
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> Senior Technical Communicator
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> Objet Geometries
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