hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs

[Writer]

>From my experiences, Meg, and from what other people have told me, FrameMaker will create absolute paths when you work on a remote drive.

Is using source control software an option for you for sharing files with other writers instead of posting files to your network?

Nadine




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> From: Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com>
>To: 'meg miranda' <megmiranda at yahoo.com>; framers at lists.frameusers.com 
>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:51:55 AM
>Subject: RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
> 
>
>Hi Meg,
> 
>There are two ways that this can happen: 
> 
>1) You import images from another drive or network volume; this is unlikely in your case.
> 
>2) You Save As the FrameMaker document from one drive or volume to another. This will create absolute paths to the graphics. This may be what happened to you.
> 
>Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.
> 
>Rick
> 
>Rick Quatro
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> 
> 
>From:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of meg miranda
>Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:43 PM
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
> 
>Hi all,
> 
>We're using Frame 10 and doing unstructured books.
> 
>We have source files out on a network drive, but we do often copy the files to our local machines so that we can work remotely and offline on them.
> 
>So now I have a book out on the network drive that somehow is referencing images on c:\dic\mybook\userguide\images\button.jpg instead of \images\button.jpg.  A similar thing has happened to some of the x-refs in 3 of the chapters.  We are getting specific references instead of relative references.
> 
>Does anyone have any suggestions why this behavior is happening? or how to fix it without having to open each chapter file and repoint the graphic directory?
> 
>I think I'm most conserned about understanding why it is happening, so that I can tell our team how to avoid this problem.
> 
>thanks,
>meg
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