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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>2013-08-26-01T12:50Z<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tino –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your time, interest, and effort. Unfortunately, I failed to include in my original posting that I must produce _separate_ .pdf files. So, I still have the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>After I print the book to separate files, I check a link while all the files are in [WatchedFolder] \ out. The links work great. Unfortunately, after I move “BEGIN_HERE.pdf” into its place and the other files into their place, the links don’t work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please note that I’m posting this to the Frame-to-Acrobat list, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dave Stamm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Information Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Heiko Haida [mailto:info@heiko-haida.de] <br><b>Sent:</b> 2013-08-23-Friday 11:31<br><b>To:</b> Stamm, David-P45904; Framers<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Hypertext links not working<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hi Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I just set up some files according to your description, with hyperlinks from each "target"-file to the others and back to the BEGIN_HERE.fm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Well, I could see no problems within the files or in the pdf...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>(My files are mainly local, but I also copied the folder to an external drive for the test.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Just to make sure:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>If "TargetA" is one example for a named hyperlink-destination in file "targetA.fm" (and so on...), and "BEGIN" is the named destination in the file "BEGIN_HERE.fm", the link options look like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Link from BEGIN_HERE.fm to the other files: gotolink ABC_DEF/targetA.fm:TargetA (...and so forth for B, C, and D)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Link from targetA.fm to targetB.fm: gotolink targetB.fm:TargetB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Link from targetA.fm back to BEGIN_HERE.fm: gotolink ..//BEGIN_HERE.fm:BEGIN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I am enclosing my PDF, if you don't mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Good luck...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Tino H. Haida. Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com">Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>2013-08-22-04T20:00Z<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>4 GB RAM<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>64-bit operating system<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>FrameMaker 11.0.2.384<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>FrameMaker installed on workstation<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in accordance with corporate policy<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files in one unstructured book.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Here's how the files are arranged:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre> NOTE: The .book file and all the target files are "children" of folder \Abc_Def. File BEGIN_HERE.fm is "sibling" of folder \Abc_Def and is to contain links to all four targets.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Folder \Abc_Def<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> File dir_Abc_Def.book<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> File targetA.fm<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> File targetB.fm<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> File targetC.fm<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> File targetD.fm<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>File BEGIN_HERE.fm<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I moved File BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def because a recipient of the informational product (portable document format files) wants it that way. I am using a character tag to constrain both the newlinks and gotolinks to small amounts of text. Before I moved file BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def, crossreferences among all files worked flawlessly.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>My latest attempt has been to specify named destinations (for example, newlink dir_About.fm) and jumps to named destinations (for example, gotolink dir_About.fm).<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>In the source .fm files, these jumps work only a small part of the time. In the deliverable .pdf files, they don't work at all.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Dave Stamm<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Information Engineer<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>