<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>You can do this in a MIF file, and if you have a text editor that will do a grep search with patterns, you can replace the absolute link pathname with a relative link.<br><br>On Mar 31, 2011, at 16:15, Alison Craig <<a href="mailto:Alison.Craig@ultrasonix.com">Alison.Craig@ultrasonix.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">FM 9 Version: 9.0p255<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Unstructured<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">OS: Windows 7, 64 bit (brand
new machine)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
10.0pt">After several problems, I've finally received a set of newly translated
Simplified Chinese files back from the (new to me) LSP. Due to budgetary
consideration, I always perform final DTP on the book before I publish to PDF.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
10.0pt">My problem is that every single image (all imported by reference) has
had the relative path changed to an absolute path and I have to re-link every
one of them when I open each file (some files have hundreds of images as I use
icons in instructions to match the proprietary console on our ultrasound
machines).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
10.0pt">In a perfect world I would return this to the LSP and have them fix it,
but these manuals are already behind schedule. I have searched the last 2 years
of list posting and cannot find the specific answer I am looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
10.0pt">Is there someplace I can change the absolute path back to the relative
path? Even if I have to make the change once for every file in the book that
would still only be 5 minutes work instead of hours and hours of work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
10.0pt">FYI: I will be working with the LSP to ensure this problem doesn’t
happen again.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
10.0pt">Alison<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element:frame"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;color:blue">Alison Craig,
Technical Writer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element:frame"><b><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;color:blue;font-weight:
bold">Ultrasonix Medical Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element:frame"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:8.5pt;color:blue">Tel: (604)
279-8550, ext 127</span></font><font size="1"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:8.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-element:frame"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt;color:blue">E-mail: </span></font><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="mailto:alison.craig@ultrasonix.com" title="blocked::mailto:alison.craig@ultrasonix.com"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><span title="blocked::mailto:alison.craig@ultrasonix.com">alison.craig@ultrasonix.com</span></span></font></a></span><font size="3"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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