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Alison
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We find that graphics on the same drive as the original files are relative. Graphics on a separate drive are absolute.
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<!-- <![endif] -->On 27 February 2013 at 18:09 Alison Craig <Alison.Craig@ultrasonix.com> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Although in my case, everything is done in FM 9 or with the MIF 9 format – so my issue has nothing to do with Frame versioning.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">PS: All FM files used to create the Book are in a single folder with graphics in a series of subfolders.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Harvey, Peggy<br/><strong>Sent:</strong> Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:41 AM<br/><strong>To:</strong> 'framers@lists.frameusers.com'<br/><strong>Subject:</strong> Relative vs. absolute links</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">Hi Framers,</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">FM 9 p 237 and FM 7 p576</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">Situation: Converting files between FM 7 and FM 9. All links and file references are relative when I start but appear to become absolute when I convert either way.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">I need to share files with a coworker at another site. I have FM 9 and he has FM 7. The files, including the book file, are always all in a single directory with a “Graphics” subdirectory for all graphics.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">Here’s the sequence of events:</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">1) The files were originally in FM 7. (When I inherited them, at least.) I put them on a network drive in that form, without converting them to FM 9.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">2) My coworker edited the files, then put them back on the network drive so I could do some clean up work on them. I moved them to a different network drive to do the work.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">3) I opened all of the files in FM 9, therefore converting them to FM 9 format. I did my cleanup, including fixing the graphics path to the “Graphics” subfolder and fixing cross-reference links that were broken. In retrospect I believe cross-references within the same file were okay but cross-references between files were all broken.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">4) When I finished my work I saved each individual file and the book file in MIF 7.0 format. I saved the MIF files in a different folder than the FM 9 files and copied the “Graphics” directory to the same folder as the MIF files.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">5) I opened each MIF file and the MIF book file in FM 7, then saved each one in .fm (or .book) format.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">6) I noticed that the book file seemed to be referring to the the previous files – the FM 9 files with the same names in the different folder. I deleted all of the file references and added all of the FM 7 files that I’d just created. So the FM 7 book file and individual files were all in the same folder.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">6) When I went to generate the book I got an error log that all of the cross-references I’d fixed in FM 9 were unresolved again. Upon further inspection I discovered all of the graphics had the wrong path, too – they were linked absolutely to the “Graphics” folder in my FM 9 folder, not to the relative “Graphics” folder I’d copied to the FM 7 folder.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">My question: Why are the links and references to files (graphics and cross-references) changing from relative to absolute paths when I convert from one version to another? At least that’s what seems to be happening, either when I open FM 7 files directly in FM 9 or when I go through the MIF to convert from FM 9 back to FM 7. Anyone have any insight to this?</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">FYI: Our final solution is we’re STRONGLY recommending my coworker upgrade to FM 9 as soon as possible. I’m hoping he’ll be able to even though Adobe is on FM 11 now. I’ve seen the traffic on the list about FM 11; I have no desire to update to it at this time so I’m hoping he doesn’t have to, either.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">Peggy</p>
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