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Can you hyperlink to an external document?

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Hello ,

As the title says, can you hyperlink in Framemaker to an external document?

The hyperlink will need to be clickable once converted to pdf.

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Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCorrect answer

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Sorry Matt, I'm not trying to be funny, I really am this stupid; which original path are you referring to?

Navigate to the file via a browser, then (assuming aURL, and not a local mapped drive location) copy/paste that address into the marker.

Take the resulting tooltip in PDF, and replace the / that result in missing or odd characters with //

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Bob_Niland

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Sure. References can be file system absolute, fs relative or URL.

The usual question is: where is that target document, and is it always "there" for all readers of your FM doc from random starting locations?

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bowen192Author

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This is very true. I like to think that everyone is sufficiently scared enough not to move the Tech Pubs files around though.

I've looked how to put a file reference in and I can not seem to find anything. Would it be:

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C:\Technical Publications\Document.pdf

or something different?

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RoboColum_n_

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Be weary of using an absolute path like that. If they have mapped or partitioned drives - or if they have control over where your documentation is placed - the link won't work. It would be better to use a relative path. For example if you have the documentation source inside C:\Technical Publications and place the PDF inside a folder called PDFs you'd just need to reference PDFs\document.pdf. This way no matter where the document is located, as long as the PDFs folder is there with it, the link would work. The other option is to use a URL as Error7103 suggested.

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