So to illustrate what Rick pointed out, if your FM files are set up like this:
Product | ------------------- | | Guide A Guide B Your PDFs, after you deliver them, have to be in the same relative directories. They can't be moved, or the links will break. Art Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded grl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Rick Quatro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Callie, > > The relative positions of the PDFs have to be the same as the relative > positions of the FrameMaker documents in order for the links to work. > > Rick > > Rick Quatro > Carmen Publishing Inc > 585-659-8267 > www.frameexpert.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Callie Bertsche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <framers@lists.frameusers.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 4:33 PM > Subject: Cross references between books > > >> Hi Framers, >> I'm having trouble linking (doing cross-references) between books. >> X-refs work fine within each of books A and B, but when I try to >> cross-ref from book A to a specific header in the book B, it works fine >> in FM, but once I've PDFd the books I get this error: "There was an >> error opening this document. This file cannot be found." I've taken the >> following steps: >> >> 1. I have all files of both books open when building either book >> 2. I have replaced each cross reference in book A. I can open the >> cross-ref in FM by pressing CTRL-ALT and clicking on the cross ref in >> book A >> 3. I rebuilt book B as well as book A in case the cross ref tags had >> been missing from book B for some reason >> >> I do have one other factor that might acct for this: book B is one >> folder over from book A. To link to the title of book B, I successfully >> use a hypertext marker in the form "openlink >> ..\book_b_folder\book_b.pdf. However, I tried putting the two PDFs in >> one folder and it didn't help. >> >> Thanks for any sleuthing hints you can offer! If you don't mind, please >> reply to myself as well as the list, since I have the list set on digest >> mode. >> >> Cheers, >> Callie >> _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.