Framemaker 8 to PDF

Hi,
In my current project, I need to design a page , which when I open in Acrobat PDF version, shows links to all the user guides. Consider that I have three user guides which are contained in three separte books. In other words, I have three book files - Book A Book B and Book C. In Framemaker, I want to create a FM file in which I can add links to each of the book files. All the book files are contained in a separate folder on my machine. The idea is that the user should be able to able to open any user guide from the separate page - all the user would have to do is click on a link in the PDF.
Kindly let me know how this can be done.
Thanks!

Without having the time to test this, I see two options I would test:
A) Create a cross-reference to the title document of the other book. When saving as PDF make sure that this title document as well as the book which contains the title document are open in your FrameMaker session. Why? The product is rather intelligent regarding turning xrefs to other FM documents into links to PDF files. It can only turn a xref to a document into a link to a book if it knows about that relationsship.
B) Insert a hypertext marker with content "openlink otherbook.pdf" (maybe I get the syntax wrong, working off my head). Just ignore that this hypertext link cannot be verified by FrameMaker.
If A works, it would be most comfortable for the user, solution B would always work.
- Michael

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AxialInfo wrote:
you might consider saving the FM file as MIF and then looking at the MIF using the wonderful freebie MIFBrowser, from Graham Wideman, from here:
Wideman Adobe FrameMaker Topics
to find the problem area do a search for the string that is in the title
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Exhaust Ventilator
Roof Mounted
Belt Drive"
although just pasting it here it looks like you might have soft carriage returns in it which will make it necessary to just search for the two-word segments.
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   <PgfFIndentOffset 0.0">
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   <PgfTopSepOffset 0.0">
   <PgfBotSeparator `'>
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   <PgfWithNext No>
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    <FPairKern Yes>
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    <FDY 0.0%>
    <FDW 0.0%>
    <FStretch 100.0%>
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        I'm not using any master.
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Message was edited by: A confused Technical Author with a rapidly humour failing boss

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