Re: [Swftools-common] Hyperlink Coords

[Hans J NUecke]

Hi Matthias,
thank you for your answer; we'll have a closer look into that.

Building documents with InDesign you can use internal names to reference 
a page.
And Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader can deal with that. You even can 
show a table with the cross reference.
I'm also not an expert in that matter, but cold imagine this helps to 
more flexibly and comfortably move named paragraphs around, without the 
need to update page numbers manually.

So far we used the internal link to direct page numbers, e.g. for the ToC.
But the internal names could be an interesting additional option.

Thank you for your guidance and additional hints. We'll dig a bit deeper 
into that. And if we find out anything helpful we'll share

Regards
Hans


Am 27.11.2010 03:14, schrieb Matthias Kramm:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Hans J NUecke<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > I am looking for a way to handle internal names (targets, text anchors?)
> > with swf files. Like links to a page or URL, but to named tags in this case.
> >
> > This thread might indicate a way to extract the needed information (xref
> > info: names<->  page number) out of any status reports.
> >
> > So here my questions for the experts (before I follow dead end links):
> > - is using -vvv and parsing the resulting messages a feasible approach for
> > what I need? WIll that information be output? Or is swfdump a better way?
> It will be printed out. It should also give you more information about
> whether a link
> is named than swfdump would:
>
> VERBOSE storing "Named" link to "end"
>
> > - I saw in lib\devices\swf.c  a function called
> >    swfoutput_namedlink(gfxdevice_t*dev, char*name, gfxline_t*points)
> >    Right after the functions linktopage and linktourl. My hope is, this
> > function already does support something helpful for my needs.
> That function actually only exists for historical reasons, and will
> only be executed if
> you insert a link into a PDF that starts with "http://pdf2swf";. It can
> be used to set
> a root level variable "subtitle" via ActionScript, when the mouse is
> hovering over them.
>
> On the other hand, the code you're presumably looking for is in
> CharOutputDev.cc, around line 1050:
>
>         case actionNamed: {
>              type = "Named";
>
> What are you using named links for, btw.? I haven't dealt with them
> for almost a decade.
>
> Matthias