Cross-Ref to External Link is Broken...

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Hi All,With your help, I have been able to establish corss-ref (or HyperText) to an external document.Yesterday, using HyperText option (Message Client), I was able to create link to an external PDF Document.Syntex of Message Client: message openfile relative_pathAfter publishing document, link to an external PDF document works fine.But when I move all the files and subfolders to another location, LINKS are BROKEN. Is there a way to fix that???Thanks in advance.

Arnis Gubins · Accepted Answer

Does the relative link work within FM (hold down ctrl+alt and then click on the link)? If it doesn't work there, then your path information is not correct. I also think you might need to be using quotes around the path because of the space in the folder name - FM has a unix heritage and is a bit sensitive on file names and paths.

Where do the links point to within the PDF (use the Acrobat Link tool > Properties when you select the link box)?

Arnis Gubins · Answer

Do any of your links cross the root of a drive? If so, then FM makes them absolute (i.e. full path including drive).

Check some of the broken links in Acrobat to see where they are pointing to - this will let you know if it's an absolute reference.

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