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Problems with cross-book references



Title: Problems with cross-book references

Hello All!

I'm new to the list, so I hope this question hasn't already been discussed ad nauseum.

I'm currently struggling with a cross-book reference issue. Here's a summary of my steps:
1. I open the book chapters that contain the information I want to reference.
2. I place a cross-reference into the source chapter.
3. When I generate/update the source book, I have the target books (but not the chapters) open so FrameMaker uses the book file name as the target PDF file.

2. I use Save As... to generate the PDF file.
3. When I launch Reader to view the PDF, I receive the following error message when I try to use the cross-book reference hypertext link: "The specified file ../DocuCreate WS/TCW15U01/TCW15ED0.pdf does not exist." While, the relative path is correct, the name of the PDF is actually TCW15U01.

Thus far, I only use two cross-book references and I receive a similar error message on the other reference.

I keep the .bk, .IX, .TOC, and all chapter files for a book in its own directory, I'm dealing with three books in three separate directories, and I place the PDF in the same place as its book. I'm working on FrameMaker 5.5.6 on Windows 98.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Alan Braun
Senior Technical Writer
DocuCorp International, Inc.
abraun@docucorp.com