Hypertext links not working

[Robert Lauriston]

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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