Referenced image files in translated documents not displayed

[Beate5E27]

Hello everybody,

I had several books translated by an agency and received the translated files back. I also provided the images directory for translation. 

None of the images is displayed in the translated files though, although the reference paths have remaines the same. 

Any kind of help is welcome!

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

What did you send them and what did they send you back?

[Beate5E27]

I sent them the complete book - which itself consists of a number of books (each one of them a chapter of the overall book), the fonts, the images directories, the table of contents and a pdf file of the original book. 

[FrameMaker-dk]

What happens if you righclick Object Properties on one of the images? I suppose they display as grey boxes - right?

[Beate5E27]

Exactly! They are displayed as grey boxes as soon as I opnen the file. Funny thnig is that the reference path is correct, but the pictures are not displayed. 

[FrameMaker-dk]

When you open the fm file... are you being prompted for missing files? Do you get a dialogue asking you to point fm to a specific path? 

What happens if you right click Object Properties and updates one of the images to the same image in the original, untranslated, graphics folder? Does it still come up as gray? What I am trying to figure out, is whether the graphics have somehow lost the images headers. Not plausible though. 

[Beate5E27]

I' prompted for missing files, yes, and do get a dialogue asking me to point fm to a specific path. 

Same thing with the object properties - the method you suggest works. But: we are talking of hundreds and hundreds of images here and I can't possibly fix them all manually. 

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Fixing one should fix them all (iirc).

[frameexpert]

Take a look at my PathChanger script at www.frameexpert.com.

[mk-will]

Hi, @Beate5E27 ,

as @Jeff_Coatsworth wrote you need to tell FM just once about the new path - IF all images are stored in the same folder (no subfolders).

If that is true and FM is not finding all the other images something else is wrong.

Have the filenames of the images changed in any way?

Or do you use any kind of network folder or something like sharepoint etc.?

Regards

Stephan

[Beate5E27]

I just realised that the images' reference path in the translated files is wrong! IT's the same mistake for all images as far as I can see.

Would there be some kind of batch procedure to repair this? It's just one directory too many for all of the pics, so the path is wrong. 

Best regards,

Beate

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Use Rick's script that he mentioned above.

[FrameMaker-dk]

Another issue may be the number of characters in the file path. If you have a path like
d:\veryfantasticmanual\heregoesmyveryfantasticfiles\superlongfilenames.png

...you may end up exceeding the number of characters Windows can handle in a file string. This may cause problems for you and you shall have to shorten the string.