<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><div class="gmail_extra"><br><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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt"><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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