Right. Just to cut to the chase...I have about 6 years of FrameMaker experience handling 64 books of 8kplus pages. What happened today has me stumped.
Once again: I opened all books in FrameMaker and did my renaming in FM to preserve all the (very literally, thousands of) links that were established by many, many offsite contract authors who preceded me. (These books have far too many cross-refs to reflect good style and conscientiousness toward usability...but, I digress. I knew there'd be trouble if I broke links because the myriad authors apparently followed their own respective conventions. Now, FM has not preserved the links, Humpty has fallen off the wall, and I think IXGen is the only fix. I do appreciate the suggestion of a hand-code fix in plain text, but there are far too many for a one-man shop...regards, Kelly. -----Original Message----- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:48 PM To: Fred Ridder; Kelly McDaniel; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Broken xrefs Fred Ridder wrote: > FrameMaker only knows to update generated files that have the > same base filename as the book plus the relevant generated > file suffix (e.g. > ...TOC, ...LOF, ...IX). If the names of the existing > generated files don't follow the pattern, FrameMaker will > generate brand-new, unformatted generated files rather than > updating the existing ones. Fred's right about changing file names within FM so that xrefs are updated -- not to mention the book file itself. But he's wrong about generated files. At least since FM6, FM hasn't relied on the file names to identify generated files. Assuming you change your TOC file's name within the book window as Fred advised, FM will still know it's your TOC file and will happily update it. But, if you rename your TOC file outside of FM, then FM can't find it, and will generate a new one that has the name listed in the book window (which will be either the naming pattern Fred specified or whatever name you previously gave it in the book window). Getting back to fixing your broken links, you could save the files as MIF, open them as text, and use find/replace operations to update the file names. HTH! Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------