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Dear All:

I have a situation and I could use the group's input on this.

I deal with a large volume of images in my Pagemaker publications and
to distill them and keep the image quality, I need to maintain links
with the images. Its also good document control discipline to link your
images to your pages. What I don't know is how to maintain links by
making them relative to the document, NOT to the directory the images
are saved in.

My problem is that my links get broken when I access the publication
from different computers (or even the same computer, but there has been
a change to the network server where the files are kept). Ex: I place a
Photoshop image on a page in a publication, I link the image file, I
check the link via "link info." After the publication has been saved, I
open it up again later, check "Links Manager" and will find the image
has lost its link.  End of example.  Now, I will do the same thing and
it will work but there will be times when it won't work. Its not
consistent which is why its frustrating me. Also compounded by the fact
I deal with publications often over a hundred pages in length with
images in 80% of the pages, all linked.

My team and I have played around with scenarios involving mapped drive
letter issues, backups to the network server severing links, bad
wiring, etc. Saving a copy of the linked files also doesn't fix the
links when "saving as." We still don't have a solution. I need to know
how to maintain my image links relative to the publication (ideally,
not to the directory). Is there a way? FYI, I have placed, inserted
object, saved as from the publication, all of that.

I'm using Pagemaker 6.52, with recent updates.  My system is Pentium
III, 400MHz, 128MB Ram, video accel, etc.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

John


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