Page to page PDF links under Linux

I'm using Framemaker version 8.0p277.
I have created separate pages for a menu hierarchy that cascades from "contents.pdf" down to subordinate pages like "genh_toc.pdf". Each file is a single page; no menu is collected into a book (but easily could be - I just inherited this setup). Subordinate pages have links to manuals, which are comprised of 4 to 20+ files.
The menu links are made using the Hypertext command, openlinkfitwin. They work under Windows, but not under Linux. I can see that the names are correct in the Linux status bar.
Your thoughts?

If the links work okay on Windows Adobe Reader but not Linux Adobe Reader, and you are using relative pathnames in your links, then this could be a Linux Adobe Reader problem. Several versions of Adobe Reader on various platforms are notorious for document links not working, especially if the link has to open a document in a different directory.
You could try updating your Linux Adobe Reader version, although bug-fixed versions of Reader are not always rolled out on all platforms - Linux users often have to wait a long time for a fixed version.
Or you could (as I have been forced to do by this chronic and recurring bug) abandon Reader altogether and use xpdf instead.

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