FM 10 sometimes changes graphics paths

[Robert Lauriston]

"FrameMaker stores relative paths whenever possible so that it can
find an imported file even when you move both the document and the
source file—as long as you keep the files in the same relative
locations."

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/11.0/Using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7960b-7eac.html

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:34 AM, Harro de Jong
<Harro.deJong at triviewgroup.com> wrote:
> I recently ran into an issue: we received a set of FrameMaker files for
> translation. After we sent the translated files back to the customer, they
> complained that all of the image paths in their files were changed.
>
> They were using relative paths that had lots  of ‘parent’ references:
>
> ..\..\..\..\..\..\Graphics\etc
>
> When I received these files, I placed them in a directory 4 levels deep:
>
> F:\Customer\project\translation\incoming\blah.fm
>
> When I opened this file Frame asked for the location of external graphics. I
> selected ‘Ignore all missing files’ and saved the file as MIF.
>
> When I inspected the MIF, the graphics paths were truncated to
>
> ..\..\..\..\Graphics\etc...