2013-08-23-05T11:40Z Robert -
Thanks for the info. I, too, haven't done this since years ago. So long ago, in fact that I've tracked down my materials from Shlomo Perets' training back in 2002. Yes, all the files are part of dir_Abc_Def.book. The odd thing, for myself, is that the "child" file, is outside the folder that contains the rest of the book. Nothing I've tried so far works, so I'm hoping that someone on the list can help me find the "secret sauce" that I'm missing from the "recipe." Regards, Dave Stamm Information Engineer General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: robert.lauris...@gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauris...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: 2013-08-22-Thursday 16:24 To: Stamm, David-P45904 Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Hypertext links not working I haven't done that sort of thing in some years, but it used to be that if you defined cross-references between .fm files in different directories, all the files had to be open when you saved a book as PDF. Also, the PDFs have to have the same relative directory relationship. If you have ./foo/foo.book and ./bar/bar.book, links in foo.pdf will be to ../bar/bar.pdf. If BEGIN_HERE.pdf is generated from an .fm file instead of a .book, that might be a problem. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM, <dave.st...@gdc4s.com> wrote: > 2013-08-22-04T20:00Z > > Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1 > 4 GB RAM > 64-bit operating system > FrameMaker 11.0.2.384 > FrameMaker installed on workstation > Folder and all files on a server on the local area network in > accordance with corporate policy > > I am unable to consistently encode hypertext links among five files in one unstructured book. > > Here's how the files are arranged: > > NOTE: The .book file and all the target files are "children" of folder \Abc_Def. File BEGIN_HERE.fm is "sibling" of folder \Abc_Def and is to contain links to all four targets. > > Folder \Abc_Def > File dir_Abc_Def.book > File targetA.fm > File targetB.fm > File targetC.fm > File targetD.fm > File BEGIN_HERE.fm > > I moved File BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def because a recipient of the informational product (portable document format files) wants it that way. I am using a character tag to constrain both the newlinks and gotolinks to small amounts of text. Before I moved file BEGIN_HERE.fm out of folder \Abc_Def, crossreferences among all files worked flawlessly. > > My latest attempt has been to specify named destinations (for example, newlink dir_About.fm) and jumps to named destinations (for example, gotolink dir_About.fm). > > In the source .fm files, these jumps work only a small part of the time. In the deliverable .pdf files, they don't work at all. > > Dave Stamm > Information Engineer > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as rob...@lauriston.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/robert%40lauriston > .com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.