[Framers] PDF xrefs to book versus individual file

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Fri Mar 25 11:46:50 PDT 2016


I don't understand what "pointing to the individual files (which don't
exist as pdfs)" means.

In unstructured FrameMaker, cross-references are always from one place
in an .fm file to another place in the same file, or from one .fm file
to another. Are you saying the .fm containing the cross-reference is
in the PDF and the target .fm is not?

Cross-references used to not work in text insets. I don't know if
Adobe ever fixed that.

There used to be a bug where all the .fm files in the book had to be
open or some cross-references would not work. I don't know if they
fixed that, either.

> Fred Wersan:
>
>> I have a release notes document with several xrefs to different sections in a book. When I generate the PDF, some work correctly and some don't. The ones that work are pointing to the book. The ones that don't are pointing to the individual files (which don't exist as pdfs), not the book. I create them the same way. The book file is open when I generate the pdf (save as pdf). Anyone have an idea what might be going on?
>>
>> (It's Frame 2015 and I have MicroType Timesavers installed.)


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