<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>If you find a solution to maintining cross-document links when a user emails the file to another system... publish and patent it and wait for your Nobel in Physics! ;-)</div>
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<div>Shlomo's method will work, too, of course... but not if moved to where the satellite PDF can't resolve the host domain/IP (same Impossible Thing Beore Breakfast as above, just with path types: relative v absolute). But the draw back of that method is (a) you can't just use 'quick' FM xrefs but have to insert 'slow' hyperlink markers and (b) it adds yet-another implementation step when someone sets up the server--and in my experience, when the Doc Team asks for other to do work to implement their functionality, folks get irritable. :-) [I also suspect it might not future-proof well, should you begin to deliver to multiple output types and devices. But having never actually done doc cross-links that way in 20 years of FM use... I wold have to test thoroughly to be confident.]</div>
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<div>It's your boat to ffloa, but I've done 10-document sets with a team of 15 writers without the least hassle. You just gotta (a) do production in bluck, at the end or (b) use a CMS/VCS and risk not having the most-current updates when you generate a set for delivery. But that is an issue that's totally orthogonal to the method you choose--nothing about how you make FM cross links is going to help you if you do not have a coordinated publishing workflow.</div>
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<div>Bon chance...</div>
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<DIV dir=ltr>That's pretty much what we do now, but it's hard to have all the books open at once when four writers are hurtling toward a deadline...
<DIV>And we have found that customer-users often copy a doc to email to a colleague or to use elsewhere and then the links break. </DIV>
<DIV>It's not a stopper for now, but I'd love to find a more robust solution.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:44 PM, David Artman <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:david@davidartman.com" target=_blank>david@davidartman.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV> I concur with Robert, unless you're facing other issue that you didn't mention in your post.</DIV>
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<DIV>Have all the BOOK files open when you print to PDF; and esure that the resulting PDFs are located in the same relative file structure as the BOOK files. [If I were you, I'd put all BOOK files in one folder, for simplicity of access, regardless of where you let choose to locate your working FM-type and graphics files.]</DIV>
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<DIV>Barring that, you could do something with Named Desitnations I reckon... but that's just a major pain: as you noted, you won't know the base location to make aboslute/hyperlink references in the FM files. But if it's your company's system to setup and install, it should be trivial just to make a docs folder on it somewhere and plop all your PDFs in that (and a shortcut to the 'master' document, perhaps, on the All Users Desktop). Done deal.</DIV>
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<DIV>-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: post-processing a PDF with FM markers<BR>From: Robert Lauriston <<A href="mailto:robert@lauriston.com" target=_blank>robert@lauriston.com</A>><BR>Date: Mon, March 23, 2015 12:05 pm<BR>To: John Sgammato <<A href="mailto:john.sgammato@actifio.com" target=_blank>john.sgammato@actifio.com</A>>, <BR>"<A href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target=_blank>framers@lists.frameusers.com</A>" <<A href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target=_blank>framers@lists.frameusers.com</A>><BR><BR>I've defined cross-references between FrameMaker files that worked<BR>across generated PDFs, provided the PDFs were in the same positions<BR>relative to each other in the directory structure (e.g. all in the<BR>same directory) as the FrameMaker books were.<BR><BR>It used to be that all the files in all the books had to be open when<BR>generating the PDFs for that to work, but it has been a few years<BR>since I did that.<BR><BR>On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:58 AM, John Sgammato<BR><<A href="mailto:john.sgammato@actifio.com" target=_blank>john.sgammato@actifio.com</A>> wrote:<BR>><BR>> I generate a library of PDFs that are delivered to the customer inside a server that we sell and install for them. Some of our customers are in secure facilities with no outside internet access, so I can't just point them to our knowledge base.<BR>><BR>> I need a way to link from one PDF to another, when they are all served from that customer server.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR><BR><BR>You are currently subscribed to framers as <A href="mailto:david@davidartman.com" target=_blank>david@davidartman.com</A>.<BR><BR>Send list messages to <A href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target=_blank>framers@lists.frameusers.com</A>.<BR><BR>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<BR><A href="mailto:framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com" target=_blank>framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com</A><BR>or visit <A href="http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/david%40davidartman.com" target=_blank>http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/david%40davidartman.com</A><BR><BR>Send administrative questions to <A href="mailto:listadmin@frameusers.com" target=_blank>listadmin@frameusers.com</A>. Visit<BR><A href="http://www.frameusers.com/" target=_blank>http://www.frameusers.com</A>/ for more resources and info.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></SPAN></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR><BR><BR>You are currently subscribed to framers as <A href="mailto:john.sgammato@actifio.com" target=_blank>john.sgammato@actifio.com</A>.<BR><BR>Send list messages to <A href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target=_blank>framers@lists.frameusers.com</A>.<BR><BR>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<BR><A href="mailto:framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com" target=_blank>framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com</A><BR>or visit <A href="http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/john.sgammato%40actifio.com" target=_blank>http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/john.sgammato%40actifio.com</A><BR><BR>Send administrative questions to <A href="mailto:listadmin@frameusers.com" target=_blank>listadmin@frameusers.com</A>. Visit<BR><A href="http://www.frameusers.com/" target=_blank>http://www.frameusers.com/</A> for more resources and info.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all>
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