Info Center: Links in PDF Manuals

Hopefully, this post will answer some of the questions that have been asked
about PDF books in the Info Center.

One of the questions was about links that work on the Internet site but not
when the PDF is downloaded and opened locally.  This problem is caused by
the use of relative links within the PDF books; the links are not fully
qualified urls so they do not always work when the book is moved.  For the
links to work correctly, all linked-to books and topics need to be in the
same root directory structure.  Why did we do this?  We also provide the
Info Center and the PDFs on CD-ROM and provide install wizards so that you
can create your own Info Center on an iSeries, LAN drive, or PC.  Since you
can choose the root directory structure for these installs, we had to stay
with relative links or none of the links would work.  I don't know of a
work around except maintaining two sets of books (that is not an accounting
statement) one for the Internet and one for the CDs.  The problem would
still occur if someone moved a book (from the CD version) to another
directory.

A second question was on the links to the syntax diagrams not working in
the CL Reference PDFs (on the INternet or locally).  Actually, these are
working as designed (by necessity).  The tools used to create the CL API
PDF volumes did not provide support for creating the links correctly.  FYI
- this is stated in the introductory paragraph to the CL PDF volumes at


http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/info/rbam6/rbam6printingme.htm



FYI - to see a list of all topics available for printing (in PDF) in the
Info Center, go to


http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzahgicprinttoc.htm



For a list of PDF manuals available for printing, go to the Supplemental
Manuals site:

      http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/rzaqhindex.htm

Hope this helps.

Regards,  Jerry Barry

DDR/004-2E101  8/553-3666  (507)-253-3666
IBM iSeries User Technologies T/CEM

http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/infocenter