Hypertext links not working

[Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com]

2013-08-26-01T12:50Z

 

Tino –

 

Thanks for your time, interest, and effort.  Unfortunately, I failed to include in my original posting that I must produce _separate_ .pdf files.  So, I still have the problem.

 

After I print the book to separate files, I check a link while all the files are in [WatchedFolder] \ out.  The links work great.  Unfortunately, after I move “BEGIN_HERE.pdf” into its place and the other files into their place, the links don’t work.

 

Please note that I’m posting this to the Frame-to-Acrobat list, too.

 

Regards,

Dave Stamm

Information Engineer

 

From: Heiko Haida [mailto:info at heiko-haida.de] 
Sent: 2013-08-23-Friday 11:31
To: Stamm, David-P45904; Framers
Subject: Re: Hypertext links not working

 

Hi Dave,

I just set up some files according to your description, with hyperlinks from each "target"-file to the others and back to the BEGIN_HERE.fm.

Well, I could see no problems within the files or in the pdf...

(My files are mainly local, but I also copied the folder to an external drive for the test.)

Just to make sure:

If "TargetA" is one example for a named hyperlink-destination in file "targetA.fm" (and so on...), and "BEGIN" is the named destination in the file "BEGIN_HERE.fm", the link options look like this:

Link from BEGIN_HERE.fm to the other files:        gotolink ABC_DEF/targetA.fm:TargetA     (...and so forth for B, C, and D)

Link from targetA.fm to targetB.fm:                    gotolink targetB.fm:TargetB

Link from targetA.fm back to BEGIN_HERE.fm:     gotolink ..//BEGIN_HERE.fm:BEGIN

I am enclosing my PDF, if you don't mind.

Good luck...

Tino H. Haida. Berlin

 

 

Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com:

	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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