External Linking - Cross-ref or Hyperlink?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Lisa,

 

As long as the cross-referenced manuals are on the same hard drive or
network volume, the links will be relative. You will see the absolute path
in FrameMaker and the PDF, but as long as the files remain in the same
relative positions, the links will work, even on different drives/volumes.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very
much.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-283-5045

rick at frameexpert.com

 

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Freeman
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:27 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: External Linking - Cross-ref or Hyperlink?

 

Hello All,

 

FrameMaker 10, Unstructured. A co-worker has a 3 volume set of manuals and
needs to create links between various files within the manual sets. I can
make the links work using a cross-reference easily but it creates an
absolute link path. These links will obviously not work when delivered to
her customer.

 

Is there a way to force Frame (and the resulting PDF file) to use a relative
path instead? I see where that's an option using a hyperlink but it seems
like it should be possible in a cross-ref. She has literally hundreds of
these links to do so I'm trying to find her the easiest way accomplish her
task.

 

Please note that we are not in a position to write a script at this time and
she will be maintaining these manuals for at least the short term anyway.

 

We appreciate any tips you can provide!

 

Sincerely,

Lisa Freeman

Publication Support Analyst

 

 


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