>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 <rick at rickquatro.com> >To: 'meg miranda' <megmiranda at yahoo.com>; framers at 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 >Carmen Publishing Inc. >*** 585-283-5045 *** NEW NUMBER >rick at frameexpert.com >http://www.frameexpert.com >? >? >? >From:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at >lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of meg miranda >Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:43 PM >To: framers at 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 >_______________________________________________ > > >You are currently subscribed to framers as generic668 at yahoo.ca. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/generic668%40yahoo.ca > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120217/39703ce5/attachment.html>