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March 14, 2014
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FrameMaker 12 issue: cross-refs store absolute path, even though the relative path is shown in href

  • March 14, 2014
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Hi all,

I often work on my documents locally and then move them to the backup drive, then the other day move them to another workstation etc. Moving complete Books was never a problem.

Working with FM12 I now noticed this error: When I open a document on another location than that where I created a cross-reference (to another document in the same book), then FrameMaker says it cannot find the file. In the error message, the former location is shown as absolute path.

For example,when I was working on my desktop it displays the path C:\users\... etc. in the error message. However, when I open the attribure inspector the path stored in the href of the cross-ref is a perfect relative path that correctly points to the target in the same folder.

Has anybody encountered this issue with FM12? How would FM even know the absolute path of a former location when only the relative path is stored in the href atribute?

Robert

P.S. If I right-click a cross-ref and select to update all cross-refs in the document, then FM simply removes all the link texts (great update feature..).

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