Cross-file links failing under Linux
FM 9 p250 on WinXP Pro SP3 Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.2 I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows, but some work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . I am using the following directory structure to create a hierarchy of menu pages with links to other PDFs: C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft for .fm files and .book files; C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft\graphics for graphics. There are about 50 other directories for PDF documents (they are what you arrive at using the menus), one for each .book and .fm file set, with a path such as C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\designlifetheory\draft. This creates designlifetheory.pdf. There are crosslinks to other pdfs from within some of these files. For the Contents menus, I have created one book per menu. Menus are a single page long. All of the books create single pdfs (i.e., not multiple files per book). The books are all output to a single directory, C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\Deliverables. I am using the newlink and gotolink commands. The newlink commands are all on master pages. The gotoink commands are all on body pages. A typical gotolink would be gotolink map_of_help.pdf:helpmap. This one seems to fail consistently on Linux. I have tried using gotolink map_of_help.fm:helpmap, which also fails. Should I be using .fm instead of .pdf in the link? The .pdfs are created using Print to Adobe PDF. The PDF Setup is Settings: Standard Job Options, View Generated PDF in Acrobat, Convert CMYK Colors to RGB; Bookmarks: Generate PDF Bookmarks; Tags: Generate Tagged PDF; Links: Create Named Destinations for All Elements and Paragraphs. I have tried placing all the books in a single directory using Save As, with all the paths relative, and books open, and with books closed. I have tried dumping all the .fm files and .book files into the same directory. I have tried outputting to various directories. I have combed the archives, and tried to follow Shlomo's training module on FrameMaker Books Cross-File Links. I don't seem to get it, whatever it may be. Any help for this newbie appreciated. Jack ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@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.
Re: Cross-file links failing under Linux
Jack, You wrote: ... I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows, but some work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . ... If the links all work as expected in Windows, the first thing to check is the consistency of case in file names. This is not an issue in Windows, but file names in Linux are case-sensitive. Other than inconsistency between the case use in the hypertext marker vs. the file name as exists in the OS (which would not be a problem under Windows), I encountered situations in the past where problems were related to the case of the file names being changed in the process of the file transfer (but file names as present internally in FrameMaker's hypertext markers were not affected). Shlomo Perets MicroType * http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker/Acrobat training consulting 32 easy ways to improve your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants, http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@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.
Re: Cross-file links failing under Linux
Hello, Shlomo - Thanks. I checked. The file names in the commands all match the file names on disk. There are a few with mixed case, but almost all are lower case, and the links fail there, too. Do you recommend switching to all lower case? You mentioned the case of the file names being changed in the process of the file transfer - is there anything that can be done about this? Jack DeLand ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@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.
Cross-file links failing under Linux
FM 9 p250 on WinXP Pro SP3 Acrobat Pro Extended 9.3.2 I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows, but some work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . I am using the following directory structure to create a hierarchy of "menu" pages with links to other PDFs: C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft for .fm files and .book files; C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\contents\Draft\graphics for graphics. There are about 50 other directories for PDF documents (they are what you arrive at using the menus), one for each .book and .fm file set, with a path such as C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\source_docs\designlifetheory\draft. This creates designlifetheory.pdf. There are crosslinks to other pdfs from within some of these files. For the Contents "menus", I have created one book per menu. Menus are a single page long. All of the books create single pdfs (i.e., not multiple files per book). The books are all output to a single directory, C:\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\nCode Desktop 6.0 ISR2\Deliverables. I am using the newlink and gotolink commands. The newlink commands are all on master pages. The gotoink commands are all on body pages. A typical gotolink would be "gotolink map_of_help.pdf:helpmap". This one seems to fail consistently on Linux. I have tried using "gotolink map_of_help.fm:helpmap", which also fails. Should I be using ".fm" instead of ".pdf" in the link? The .pdfs are created using Print to Adobe PDF. The PDF Setup is Settings: Standard Job Options, View Generated PDF in Acrobat, Convert CMYK Colors to RGB; Bookmarks: Generate PDF Bookmarks; Tags: Generate Tagged PDF; Links: Create Named Destinations for All Elements and Paragraphs. I have tried placing all the books in a single directory using Save As, with all the paths relative, and books open, and with books closed. I have tried dumping all the .fm files and .book files into the same directory. I have tried outputting to various directories. I have combed the archives, and tried to follow Shlomo's training module on "FrameMaker Books & Cross-File Links." I don't seem to get it, whatever it may be. Any help for this newbie appreciated. Jack
Cross-file links failing under Linux
Jack, You wrote: >... I am struggling with links across PDF files. They all work in Windows, >but some work and some don't under Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux . ... If the links all work as expected in Windows, the first thing to check is the consistency of case in file names. This is not an issue in Windows, but file names in Linux are case-sensitive. Other than inconsistency between the case use in the hypertext marker vs. the file name as exists in the OS (which would not be a problem under Windows), I encountered situations in the past where problems were related to the case of the file names being changed in the process of the file transfer (but file names as present internally in FrameMaker's hypertext markers were not affected). Shlomo Perets MicroType * http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting "32 easy ways to improve your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants", http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html
Cross-file links failing under Linux
Hello, Shlomo - Thanks. I checked. The file names in the commands all match the file names on disk. There are a few with mixed case, but almost all are lower case, and the links fail there, too. Do you recommend switching to all lower case? You mentioned "the case of the file names being changed in the process of the file transfer" - is there anything that can be done about this? Jack DeLand
