Re: Creating External Links (that work) in PDFs

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:28 AM 6/12/00 +0200, Anne Greenney-Katz wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have created a series of books in framemaker 5.5.6 on NT. The books
>contain cross reference to
>each other. I have created PDFs for each of the books, and they are all
>in the same
>directory. However the cross references that should enable me to jump
>from one book to
>another, do not work.
>I receive the following message:
>
>      "There was an error while performing the action. Invalid file
>      specification object."
>
>
>Can anyone tell me what I did wrong, and how I go about correcting it.
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Think about it. You generate a PDF for one book (Book A), and there are cross-
references in it to another book (Book B) There are also cross-
references from Book B to Book A. There are the following possibilities:

1. Book B was not yet converted to PDF at the time the PDF was generated
for Book A.

2. Book B was converted to PDF before the PDF was generated for Book A.

How would you expect either book to:
A. Know the PDF filename of the other book, which doesn't exist yet?

B. Even if, by some magic, the PDF filename of the not-yet-generated
other book is known in advance, how would one book know the specific
location code for each target node in the other book?



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