Creating a Responsive HTML5 book

[bowen192]

Hello ,

I have started trying to publish my documents to HTML5 via FM11's Publish pod.

The output is quite good but when I try and create a book, or more than one file, I just get X FrameMaker book files could not be found.

Any ideas?

[bowen192]

No ideas?

Does anyone else use this feature with no problems?

[Arnis_Gubins]

The usual suspects: network location, book file in different folder from source files, convoluted/long paths, TEMP folder (nearly) full, aggressive anti-virus grabbing file before FM, etc.

What does the Publish log file say?

[Bob_Niland]

> The usual suspects: ...

Comma in file or directory names. This is unlikely, but worth checking.

[bowen192]

It's the path, you're right Arnis.

Because I have re-named all the files in my book to get rid of the *.fm (for the filename cross-references), Framemaker cannot find them. Adding the *.fm extension fixes the problem.

Not sure what I'm going to do here as I know there is no fix for the extension problem.

Hmm. May have to generate another set of files with *.fm extensions.

[Bob_Niland]

> Not sure what I'm going to do here as I know there is no fix for the extension problem.

Symbolic links ("shortcuts" on Windows). The same file would have two names, one with .fm, the other without.

[bowen192]

Error7103 wrote:

> Not sure what I'm going to do here as I know there is no fix for the extension problem.

Symbolic links ("shortcuts" on Windows). The same file would have two names, one with .fm, the other without.

I'm sure that would work, but I honestly wouldn't know where to begin.

You could point me in the right direction, but bear in mind I'm part of the Windows generation.

[Bob_Niland]

> You could point me in the right direction, but bear in mind I'm part of the Windows generation.

Right-click on a file in the file manager (Windows Explorer).

Select "Create shortcut".

For an earlier discussion, see: System Variables

The shortcut doesn't need to be in the same directory as the real file.

[bowen192]

Error7103 wrote:

> You could point me in the right direction, but bear in mind I'm part of the Windows generation.

Right-click on a file in the file manager (Windows Explorer).

Select "Create shortcut".

For an earlier discussion, see: System Variables

The shortcut doesn't need to be in the same directory as the real file.

That's what I thought you meant, but I convinced myself otherwise; I cannot believe that actually worked!

What a great tip.

Didn't fix the Publishing problem, but it fixes another big one.

[Arnis_Gubins]

Why do you need to get rid of the .fm extensions? The correct links will be created during the publish step.

[bowen192]

Arnis Gubins wrote:

Why do you need to get rid of the .fm extensions? The correct links will be created during the publish step.

I use the variable <$filename> extensively in my documents. The file name is displayed as filename.fm, so I have to remove all file extensions at book level.

It's a long standing FM problem that even Word has a fix for.