Cross-file links failing under Linux

jdeland1 at comcast.net jdeland1 at comcast.net
Thu Apr 29 09:18:21 PDT 2010


FM 9 p250 on WinXP Pro SP3 
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.2 

I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows, but some work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . 

I am using the following directory structure to create a hierarchy of "menu" pages with links to other PDFs: 

C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft for .fm files and .book files; C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft\graphics for graphics. 

There are about 50 other directories for PDF documents (they are what you arrive at using the menus), one for each .book and .fm file set, with a path such as C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\designlifetheory\draft. This creates designlifetheory.pdf. There are crosslinks to other pdfs from within some of these files. 

For the Contents "menus", I have created one book per menu. Menus are a single page long. 

All of the books create single pdfs (i.e., not multiple files per book). The books are all output to a single directory, C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\Deliverables. 

I am using the newlink and gotolink commands. The newlink commands are all on master pages. The gotoink commands are all on body pages. A typical gotolink would be "gotolink map_of_help.pdf:helpmap". This one seems to fail consistently on Linux. I have tried using "gotolink map_of_help.fm:helpmap", which also fails. Should I be using ".fm" instead of ".pdf" in the link? 

The .pdfs are created using Print to Adobe PDF. The PDF Setup is Settings: Standard Job Options, View Generated PDF in Acrobat, Convert CMYK Colors to RGB; Bookmarks: Generate PDF Bookmarks; Tags: Generate Tagged PDF; Links: Create Named Destinations for All Elements and Paragraphs. 

I have tried placing all the books in a single directory using Save As, with all the paths relative, and books open, and with books closed. I have tried dumping all the .fm files and .book files into the same directory. I have tried outputting to various directories. I have combed the archives, and tried to follow Shlomo's training module on "FrameMaker Books & Cross-File Links." 

I don't seem to get it, whatever it may be. 

Any help for this newbie appreciated. 

Jack 






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