Multi-Volume Documents

2013-07-24 Thread Valerie Lipow 
I'm working on a U.S. Air Force maintenance manual containing three
volumes. I know how to enumerate the chapters and cross-references within
each volume, and how to enumerate the volumes and manage the
cross-references within the book.

One audience will use Volumes I and II; another will use Volumes I and III.
Each of the three volumes will be a separate PDF file in some future
electronic manual storage site. I have no way to know the paths for the
file locations.

What is the best way to make persistent cross references across volumes
after the book is PDF'ed? Can it be done in Framemaker?

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RE: Multi-Volume Documents

2013-07-24 Thread Rick Quatro 
Hi Valerie,

 

With cross-references and hyperlinks, the only way to ensure that the PDF
links work is to make sure the resulting PDFs are in the same relative
location that the FrameMaker books were in.  Or, vise versa: If you know how
the PDFs are going to be stored relative to each other, you could organize
the FrameMaker books to match this relative arrangement.

 

After you find out how the PDFs are going to be stored, you may be able to
use a third-party program to modify the links in the PDF. I use AutoBookmark
Professional from www.evermap.com for this kind of thing. In any case, it is
difficult to provide links between PDFs when you don't know how they are
going to be stored relative to each other.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-283-5045

r...@frameexpert.com

 

 

 

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I'm working on a U.S. Air Force maintenance manual containing three volumes.
I know how to enumerate the chapters and cross-references within each
volume, and how to enumerate the volumes and manage the cross-references
within the book. 

One audience will use Volumes I and II; another will use Volumes I and III.
Each of the three volumes will be a separate PDF file in some future
electronic manual storage site. I have no way to know the paths for the file
locations. 

What is the best way to make persistent cross references across volumes
after the book is PDF'ed? Can it be done in Framemaker? 


-- 
Valerie Lipow
valli...@gmail.com 

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Re: Multi-Volume Documents

2013-07-24 Thread Robert Lauriston 
When I did that some years ago, I just had all the .book and .fm files
in the same directory. Cross-PDF links worked fine so long as the PDFs
were in the same directory.

There used to be a bug that all the .fm files had to be open for the
cross-PDF links to work but I think that was fixed.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Valerie Lipow valli...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm working on a U.S. Air Force maintenance manual containing three volumes.
 I know how to enumerate the chapters and cross-references within each
 volume, and how to enumerate the volumes and manage the cross-references
 within the book.

 One audience will use Volumes I and II; another will use Volumes I and III.
 Each of the three volumes will be a separate PDF file in some future
 electronic manual storage site. I have no way to know the paths for the file
 locations.

 What is the best way to make persistent cross references across volumes
 after the book is PDF'ed? Can it be done in Framemaker?
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Multi-Volume Documents

2013-07-24 Thread Valerie Lipow 
I'm working on a U.S. Air Force maintenance manual containing three
volumes. I know how to enumerate the chapters and cross-references within
each volume, and how to enumerate the volumes and manage the
cross-references within the book.

One audience will use Volumes I and II; another will use Volumes I and III.
Each of the three volumes will be a separate PDF file in some future
electronic manual storage site. I have no way to know the paths for the
file locations.

What is the best way to make persistent cross references across volumes
after the book is PDF'ed? Can it be done in Framemaker?

-- 
Valerie Lipow
vallipow at gmail.com
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Multi-Volume Documents

2013-07-24 Thread Rick Quatro 
Hi Valerie,



With cross-references and hyperlinks, the only way to ensure that the PDF
links work is to make sure the resulting PDFs are in the same relative
location that the FrameMaker books were in.  Or, vise versa: If you know how
the PDFs are going to be stored relative to each other, you could organize
the FrameMaker books to match this relative arrangement.



After you find out how the PDFs are going to be stored, you may be able to
use a third-party program to modify the links in the PDF. I use AutoBookmark
Professional from www.evermap.com for this kind of thing. In any case, it is
difficult to provide links between PDFs when you don't know how they are
going to be stored relative to each other.



Rick



Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-283-5045

rick at frameexpert.com







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I'm working on a U.S. Air Force maintenance manual containing three volumes.
I know how to enumerate the chapters and cross-references within each
volume, and how to enumerate the volumes and manage the cross-references
within the book. 

One audience will use Volumes I and II; another will use Volumes I and III.
Each of the three volumes will be a separate PDF file in some future
electronic manual storage site. I have no way to know the paths for the file
locations. 

What is the best way to make persistent cross references across volumes
after the book is PDF'ed? Can it be done in Framemaker? 


-- 
Valerie Lipow
vallipow at gmail.com 

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Multi-Volume Documents

2013-07-24 Thread Valerie Lipow 
Thanks, Rick. It looks really helpful. I just requested authorization to
buy AutoBookmark Professional.


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Rick Quatro  wrote:

> Hi Valerie,
>
> ** **
>
> With cross-references and hyperlinks, the only way to ensure that the PDF
> links work is to make sure the resulting PDFs are in the same relative
> location that the FrameMaker books were in.  Or, vise versa: If you know
> how the PDFs are going to be stored relative to each other, you could
> organize the FrameMaker books to match this relative arrangement.
>
> ** **
>
> After you find out how the PDFs are going to be stored, you may be able to
> use a third-party program to modify the links in the PDF. I use
> AutoBookmark Professional from www.evermap.com for this kind of thing. In
> any case, it is difficult to provide links between PDFs when you don't know
> how they are going to be stored relative to each other.
>
> ** **
>
> Rick
>
> ** **
>
> Rick Quatro
>
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
>
> 585-283-5045
>
> rick at frameexpert.com
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:
> framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Valerie Lipow
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:40 AM
> *To:* Framers; techcomm-usg at googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* Multi-Volume Documents
>
> ** **
>
> I'm working on a U.S. Air Force maintenance manual containing three
> volumes. I know how to enumerate the chapters and cross-references within
> each volume, and how to enumerate the volumes and manage the
> cross-references within the book.
>
> One audience will use Volumes I and II; another will use Volumes I and
> III. Each of the three volumes will be a separate PDF file in some future
> electronic manual storage site. I have no way to know the paths for the
> file locations.
>
> What is the best way to make persistent cross references across volumes
> after the book is PDF'ed? Can it be done in Framemaker? 
>
>
> --
> Valerie Lipow
> vallipow at gmail.com 
>
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