[Framers] PDF xrefs to book versus individual file

[Fred Wersan]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. The release notes has xrefs to sections in a 
book. I print the release notes to PDF and the Users Guide to PDF. The 
xrefs in the release notes PDF should link to sections in the 
UsersGuide.PDF. I do this all the time. Some of them work as expected. 
Some of them do not. When I look at the properties of the xrefs in the 
PDF in Adobe Acrobat, I see that the ones that work are pointing to the 
UsersGuide.pdf file and a named destination. The links that do not work 
are not pointing to UsersGuide.pdf, but are pointing to a pdf file that 
is named after the file in the book that the xrefs were to, for example 
starting_the_app.pdf. However starting_the_app.pdf does not exist 
because I did not generate individual PDFs, but only a PDF for the 
entire book. (The book was open in FM when I printed the release notes. 
You don't need to open all the individual files.) Since I created all 
the xrefs in FM the same way, it doesn't make sense to me.

Fred

On 3/25/2016 2:46 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> 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.
>

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