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m geraghty,

I saw you did mention your platform (FM6, Windows NT),
so I tried a test document on the same platform.

I have inserted both "gotolink" and "openlink" hypertext markers
in FM pointing to documents with an absolute path including
spaces, and including more than 5 levels.

When converted to PDF using Acrobat 4.05, these links work
as expected, without deleting spaces or directory levels.

There are a few things you must consider, though:
* Entering backspaces in the path sometimes triggers FM's
  automatic recognition of special characters. Check the
  marker text after you've inserted the marker to see that
  all characters appear as you expected. If not, use "\\"
  or "/" instead of a single backslash. (both "/" and "\"
  works as directory separators)

* Linking to a document type other than PDF will automatically
  replace the file extension with "pdf". A link to "abc.fm"
  will be replaced by a link to "abc.pdf".

* Linking to a directory will give an error message, unless
  there's a PDF file with the same name. A link to ".../folder"
  will open ".../folder.pdf" if it exists.

Opening other document types than PDF usually requires you to use
the "message URL" or "message system" commands. I'm not sure how
well they transfer to PDF, though (cannot reach Microtype's site).


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