package not working with linked graphics

Report · Jul 27, 2016

package "feature" will not package linked graphics. HELP

Report · Jul 29, 2016

Even after you are all patched up, the Package command is not going to completely package your book. It is only going to package what is in the current folder and any sub folders. If you have FrameMaker and graphic files in other folders on your drive, they show in the log as missing and do not "pack" into the zip file.

In my multiple drive/folder structure, this command is useless. I use another packaging utility for a FrameMaker plug-in developer.

Yes this should work exactly like the package command in InDesign.

Report · Nov 28, 2016

Coming extremely late to this conversation! FM is missing files that are in the same directory containing dozens of files that it does find correctly! Maddening.

May I ask what plug-in you use? Thanks.

Report · Nov 28, 2016

Hi,

I have Finalyzer by Squibbs. Here is the website:

Finalyser

The Basic Package is a package of utilities for FrameMaker. One of them is a Transfer utility, you can transfer a single file of a complete book into a single folder. It grabs everything no matter where it is on your computer/network. I have been using this for years, mostly to package everything for translation.

Report · Nov 28, 2016

Thanks!

Report · Mar 28, 2017

I don't know if my response will reactivate this thread. I am having the identical problem: the Package function tells me it can't find copied-by-reference graphics that are side-by-side with other graphics it CAN find in one and the same directory. This is really irritating. It would be a useful feature ... if it worked.

Are there any new suggestions to be had?

Report · Mar 28, 2017

Further investigation reveals that the packager thinks graphics are imported from a different location on my hard drive than the actual location of the copied-by-reference files.

HOWEVER, when I generate the LOR for the document, all referenced graphic files are located within the folder containing the book and .fm files.

I deleted the folder that the Packager thinks the graphics live in and ran it again. Same result.

Why does the Package function look outside the immediate directory for linked graphics files that are exactly where they should be?

Report · Nov 28, 2016

Hello. Did you ever get an answer? I've just tried to use the Package feature and it's missing dozens of llinked graphics that are sitting right in the directory specified in the log file! The Package feature is worthless, it seems to me.

Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

Report · Mar 28, 2017

Oh, Lord, I never noticed that I was replying to my own thread. Well .... I am a bit perturbed ...

It turns out my graphics WERE being imported from a distant directory. The thread as spelled out in the LOR was misleading and I thought it was correctly located. Maybe all is not lost with the Packager function ...

Report · Dec 08, 2017

I'm not able to make the Packager in Frame 2017 work. The Adobe user reference is not helpful.

Every time I run it, Frame crashes. Chapter files are all linked to graphics in a subdirectory. No log files are generated even in the hidden AppData\Roaming tree. I did find a number of "ulog_TCS_FrameMaker_....tmp" files with the date/time stamps that are right around the time I tried to use the feature.

Any ideas about what to check to get this to work?