Re: Links in postscript

[Albert Kinderman]

I meant to say that I want the live url link in a pdf document on the
web.  I use ps2pdf to generate the pdf from the ps.

Al


Albert Kinderman wrote:
> 
> According to the pdfmark primer (a chapter taken from WEB Publishing
> with Acrobat/PDF by Thomas Merz), the border parameters [x x x] define
> the rectangle's appearance - "line width and line dash."   [0 0 0] is no
> border.  If Merz is correct and if the last number is the width of the
> border line, then the first two numbers would define how the border is
> dashed - how long and how far apart.
> 
> I know this isn't the answer, but the solution might come from
> experimentation (which I haven't done).
> 
> On the other side of the issue, I sometimes want to add pdfmarks to my
> postscript output, for example to put a live url in a ps document for my
> web site.  I do this by editing my lout output by hand.  Would you
> consider adding some pdfmark capability to lout to generate the correct
> pdf/ps code directly?  If the capability is already there, I don't know
> how to find it.
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> Jeff Kingston wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone want to comment on the issue raised below?  I agree with
> > Dave that the black rectangles you get in 3.24 are unsightly, so
> > I have modified Lout to implement what his sed command does.  However
> > Dave speaks as though one would want this to be optional, which I
> > haven't done because I don't see why.
> >
> > Also if anyone can tell me what the first two numbers in [0 0 0]
> > are for I would be grateful.  The pdfmark reference manual I have
> > calls them "horizontal corner radius" and "vertical corner radius",
> > which leaves me none the wiser except that I suspect I don't care
> > about it much, whatever it is.
> >
> > Jeff Kingston
> >

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Albert Kinderman             California State University, Northridge
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