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SteveKepco
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March 23, 2011
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External Cross-references between FM books don't work between PDF's

  • March 23, 2011
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I have an external cross-reference from a file in FM book A to a paragraph in FM book B. When the link in the PDF of A is clicked, it opens the PDF of B but does not go to the paragraph, instead It opens at page 1. I am using Framemaker V8.0p277. To create the PDFs I put all the files of the 2 books in one folder, opened all the files, created the PDF of A then B. When printing both books, I verified that in the Print Book dialog - PDF Setup - Links, there is a check next to Create Named Destinations for all Paragraphs. Created the PDFs by printing to file, then distilling (V5.0).

Any help would be appreciated.

Steve

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    March 23, 2011

    Steve,

    Did you have both .book files open when you created the output files for PDFs?

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    SteveKepcoAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    March 23, 2011

    Yes, both books and all the files in them were open.

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    March 23, 2011

    Have you checked the links in Acrobat to see exactly what they are pointing to in the other file? This works in my installaions, and you only need to have the book files open (not all of the .fm files). Also, if that is the correct version of Distiller (v.5.0 ?) then it's quite ancient and perhaps may be a contributing factor. Have cross-book links worked for you before?

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