[f2a] RE: Hypertext links not working

Mon Aug 26 08:59:37 PDT 2013

2013-08-26-01T16:00Z

Gail –

Yes, I print the book all at once to only one watched folder.  I’m using File | Print Book… > Separate File for Each Docu.  The arrangement of the .fm files is the same as arrangement of the .pdf files is to be.

This is the first time in _years_ that I’ve needed to do this, so it’s mighty perplexing.  I, too, customarily print large books including tables of contents and indices and such.  Those files are in only one folder, and I use File > Single File.  Everything works great.

But not with the source and output files in different folders . . ..

Regards,

Dave Stamm

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From: Gail Bergan [mailto:gail.bergan at bergan.com] 
Sent: 2013-08-26-Monday 11:25
To: Stamm, David-P45904
Cc: <info at heiko-haida.de>; <framers at lists.frameusers.com>; <frame2acrobat at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [f2a] RE: Hypertext links not working

Hi Dave,

Is your begin_here.pdf being written to the same watched folder? I use a similar setup when producing my larger books (a Start.pdf file that has a large TOC that links to the individual "chapter" files). But I must write ALL files at once, including Start, hyperlinked Index, and individual chapters, from the book file so that relative links are not broken. When I test them in the Out folder, everything works, and then I can move them en masse to wherever the final files will reside. If I try to write the Start file by itself, then the Index by itself, or the chapters, I find I have broken links.

I hope I understood your problem correctly and this helps.

Gail

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On Aug 26, 2013, at 6:50 AM, <dave.stamm at gdc4s.com> wrote:

	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 <mailto:info%40heiko-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 <mailto:Dave.Stamm%40gdc4s.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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