Hypertext links not working

[Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com]

2013-08-23-05T11:40Z

Robert -

Thanks for the info.  I, too, haven't done this since years ago.  So
long ago, in fact that I've tracked down my materials from Shlomo
Perets' training back in 2002.

Yes, all the files are part of dir_Abc_Def.book.  The odd thing, for
myself, is that the "child" file, is outside the folder that contains
the rest of the book.

Nothing I've tried so far works, so I'm hoping that someone on the list
can help me find the "secret sauce" that I'm missing from the "recipe."

Regards,
Dave Stamm
Information Engineer
General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: 2013-08-22-Thursday 16:24
To: Stamm, David-P45904
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Hypertext links not working

I haven't done that sort of thing in some years, but it used to be that
if you defined cross-references between .fm files in different
directories, all the files had to be open when you saved a book as PDF.

Also, the PDFs have to have the same relative directory relationship.
If you have ./foo/foo.book and ./bar/bar.book, links in foo.pdf will be
to ../bar/bar.pdf.

If BEGIN_HERE.pdf is generated from an .fm file instead of a .book, that
might be a problem.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM,  <Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com> wrote:
> 2013-08-22-04T20:00Z
>
> Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1
> 4 GB RAM
> 64-bit operating system
> FrameMaker 11.0.2.384
> FrameMaker installed on workstation
> Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in 
> accordance with corporate policy
>
> I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files in
one unstructured book.
>
> Here's how the files are arranged:
>
>         NOTE:  The .book file and all the target files are "children"
of folder \Abc_Def.  File BEGIN_HERE.fm is "sibling" of folder \Abc_Def
and is to contain links to all four targets.
>
> Folder \Abc_Def
>         File dir_Abc_Def.book
>         File targetA.fm
>         File targetB.fm
>         File targetC.fm
>         File targetD.fm
> File BEGIN_HERE.fm
>
> I moved File BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def because a recipient
of the informational product (portable document format files) wants it
that way.  I am using a character tag to constrain both the newlinks and
gotolinks to small amounts of text.  Before I moved file BEGIN_HERE.fm
out of folder \Abc_Def, crossreferences among all files worked
flawlessly.
>
> My latest attempt has been to specify named destinations (for example,
newlink dir_About.fm) and jumps to named destinations (for example,
gotolink dir_About.fm).
>
> In the source .fm files, these jumps work only a small part of the
time.  In the deliverable .pdf files, they don't work at all.
>
> Dave Stamm
> Information Engineer
>
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