[Framers] External cross-references in book documents - do not work in generated PDFs

[Rick Quatro]

It's not a bug. It is the only way that FrameMaker can figure out what the
parent book is for a particular external link. Remember that the link in the
FrameMaker file is to a filename.fm, but the link in the PDF has to be to
the bookname.pdf. When the link is to a file external to the book currently
being processed, FrameMaker looks at the currently opened books to determine
which PDF name to use for the link.

Rick

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Subject: Re: [Framers] External cross-references in book documents - do not
work in generated PDFs

I'd falsely assumed they had fixed that bug long ago. I first encountered it
in FM6 if not 5.5.6.

To avoid that issue, once computers had enough memory to deal handle it, I
started putting the whole doc set in one PDF.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:
>
> Let's say you are producing a PDF from Book A. Book A has links to Book B.
> Book B has to be open in FrameMaker when you make the PDF from Book A 
> in order for the links to Book B to work.
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