>From my experiences, Meg, and from what other people have told me, FrameMaker
>will create absolute paths when you work on a remote drive.
Is using source control software an option for you for sharing files with other
writers instead of posting files to your network?
Nadine
>________________________________
> From: Rick Quatro <r...@rickquatro.com>
>To: 'meg miranda' <megmira...@yahoo.com>; framers@lists.frameusers.com
>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:51:55 AM
>Subject: RE: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
>
>
>Hi Meg,
>
>There are two ways that this can happen:
>
>1) You import images from another drive or network volume; this is unlikely in
>your case.
>
>2) You Save As the FrameMaker document from one drive or volume to another.
>This will create absolute paths to the graphics. This may be what happened to
>you.
>
>Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.
>
>Rick
>
>Rick Quatro
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>
>
>From:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
>[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of meg miranda
>Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:43 PM
>To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: hard coded path names for imported graphics and x-refs
>
>Hi all,
>
>We're using Frame 10 and doing unstructured books.
>
>We have source files out on a network drive, but we do often copy the files to
>our local machines so that we can work remotely and offline on them.
>
>So now I have a book out on the network drive that somehow is referencing
>images on c:\dic\mybook\userguide\images\button.jpg instead of
>\images\button.jpg. A similar thing has happened to some of the x-refs in 3
>of the chapters. We are getting specific references instead of relative
>references.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions why this behavior is happening? or how to fix
>it without having to open each chapter file and repoint the graphic directory?
>
>I think I'm most conserned about understanding why it is happening, so that I
>can tell our team how to avoid this problem.
>
>thanks,
>meg
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