Re: Graphic won't stay linked - Reply

["Craig Ede" <craig.ede@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Offlist

See my comments posted to the two framers lists. John. I note that you
are using the Mac, so I retract the Windows crack.

Additionally: I have never lost the link to referenced graphics except
by moving a directory itself (or, of course, by deleting the referenced
file). Upon reconnecting the link, the graphics have stayed linked, even
when the graphics are in multiple folders either on the tree above or
within the directory of the doc referencing them.

It is prudent to have a logical directory structure, however, so that
you know where a certain type of graphic would be if it exists. The link
is relative to the doc referencing the graphic, so making sure that you
preserve the relative path when moving (or copying when making a new
book based on an existing book) blocks of files is helpful in avoiding
unnecessary re-linking. Looking at the path to the referenced file might
be useful in diagnosing the problem. If you track above the docs
directory the path is not explicitly named but becomes ../../../ , for
instance to go three folders up from the current directory. Tracking
down into the directory is explicit, so you might see:

../../../standard/icons/open.tif
../../../standard/alerts/warning.gif
./graphics/jessethegov.jpg

to describe the paths to:

1) a standard icon used across docs called open.tif (that is up three
directories and then placed in the icons folder within a standard
folder)
2) a standard alert used across docs called warning.gif (that is up
three directories and then placed in the alerts folder within a standard
folder)
3) a graphic used in only the docs in the current folder called
jessethegov.jpg (that is in a graphics folder in the current doc
directory)

If you send me a copy of the mifs of the doc before and after the
relinking I will diff them using UNIX and tell you what I find. I would
just need the before and after mifs of the doc itself, not any of the
graphics.

Good luck.

Craig

>>> Keith Smyth <smythkl@best.com> 07/20 5:53 pm >>>
John, Alice:

On all the contracts that I have had using Frame, we always made it
a rule that the linked graphics went into a subdirectory of the
directory
containing the book. This insured that the graphics were always linked.

If we ftped the file to our service provider, the whole directory was
sent.

Only when the graphics were linked higgledy-piggledy all over the place
did Frame lose it's graphics pointers.

I have not tried putting one type of graphics in a subdirectory of the
book directory, (say icons), then putting a second type of graphics
(say screen captures) in a subdirectory of the icon directory.

I don't know if this would work or not. Might be worth a try.

I will try it when I get through with these idiotic Visio drawings
I am having to do.

Aaarrrrggggghhhhh!

Alice Preston wrote:

> John,
>
> Though I'm using an older version of FrameMaker (5.5.1 on Windows/NT),
I see
> similar behavior when I have some graphics in one directory and some
in another.
> It can apparently deal fine with one source for graphics, but two
sources seem
> to confuse it--I think this started with release 5, but am not
completely
> certain.  Has anybody else seen this type of behavior (it's a drag
when I want
> to separate, say, screen captures from icon images)?  Actually, the
width of the
> error/correction dialog often keeps us from being able to see exactly
what
> graphic it is, too, which is also a drag.  What happened to the
relative
> pathname idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Alice Preston
> Telcordia Technologies
> formerly Bellcore
> Piscataway, NJ   USA
> ---------------------------------
> Subject: Graphic won't stay linked
> From: John Hoppe <johnh@radionics.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:25:43 -0400
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a graphic that won't stay linked.
>
> Each and every time I open this fm doc, I get the "Missing
File...Looking
> for: ________" error. Each and every time, I re-link the graphic file
and
> make sure "Update Document to use New Path" is checked. Why won't it
stay
> updated? I save, I save and quit, I save and save and save and it
still
> refuses to find this one graphic at start-up. Any clues?
>
> I'm using Frame 5.5.6 on Mac PowerPC.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Hoppe
> johnh@radionics.com
> Technical Writer, Surgical Planning Products
> Radionics Software Applications, Inc.
> 781-272-1233  x328
>
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