Text Insets and Cross Reference Links

When I use text insets to produce a host file from my source file, I have cross reference links that update OK. However, once I produce a PDF of the host file (text inset), my links do not work. I do not even get the little hand icon to indicate they are links. I am producing my PDFs using File/Save As PDF and the first checkbox on the Links tab is checked. Is this a problem using text insets?

Unfortunately, that's the way insets work in FM. Cross-refs within an inset do not automatically become active. If you convert the inset to text, then the links are made. I believe that Rick Quatro wrote a Framescript to handle this in an automated way.
The manual way to do this, is to make a copy of the book - using Bruce Foster's Archive utility is the way to go: see http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/Archive.htm
Then use the Edit > Text Inset Properties > Convert... > All insets to embed the insets into the documents (you have to do this on a file by file basis); regenerate/update the book file and only then create your output.

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