<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>From my experiences, Meg, and from what other people have told me, FrameMaker will create absolute paths when you work on a remote drive.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Is using source control software an option for you for sharing files with other writers instead of posting files to your network?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Nadine<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rick Quatro
<rick@rickquatro.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'meg miranda' <megmiranda@yahoo.com>; framers@lists.frameusers.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 17, 2012 7:51:55 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1082685661"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1082685661WordSection1"><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">Hi Meg,</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">There are two ways that this can happen: </span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">1) You import images from another drive or network volume; this is unlikely in your case.</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">
</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">2) You Save As the FrameMaker document from one drive or volume to another. This will create absolute paths to the graphics. This may be what happened to you.</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">Rick</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">Rick Quatro</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">Carmen Publishing Inc.</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">*** 585-283-5045 *** NEW NUMBER</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">rick@frameexpert.com</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">http://www.frameexpert.com</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">
</span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>meg miranda<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div
class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Hi all,</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">We're using Frame 10 and doing unstructured books.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">We have source files out on a network drive, but we do often copy the files to our local machines so that we can work remotely and offline on them.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span
style="color:black;">So now I have a book out on the network drive that somehow is referencing images on c:\dic\mybook\userguide\images\button.jpg instead of \images\button.jpg. A similar thing has happened to some of the x-refs in 3 of the chapters. We are getting specific references instead of relative references.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Does anyone have any suggestions why this behavior is happening? or how to fix it without having to open each chapter file and repoint the graphic directory?</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">I think I'm
most conserned about understanding why it is happening, so that I can tell our team how to avoid this problem.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">thanks,</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1082685661MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;">meg</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br><br><br>You are currently subscribed to framers as <a ymailto="mailto:generic668@yahoo.ca" href="mailto:generic668@yahoo.ca">generic668@yahoo.ca</a>.<br><br>Send list messages to <a ymailto="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>.<br><br>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<br><a
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