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
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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
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> ----- 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
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