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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004261 | Scribus | public | 2006-09-17 10:38 | 2006-10-08 09:32 | |
| Reporter | skunk | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | acknowledged | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | Linux | OS | Slackware | OS Version | 10.2 |
| Product Version | 1.3.3.3 | ||||
| Summary | 0004261: PDF-Comments used as links are invisible in exported PDF | ||||
| Description | Whenever I mark some text as link which, when clicked, should lead the user to another page within the document, the text-link in the exported pdf is not visible, though the link is still there and works (mouse-pointer changes and document skips to the right page). This ocurred in Sribus version 1.3.3.2 and 1.3.3.3, with PDF version 1.4 and 1.5. I did not try other combinations. I use Acrobat Reader version 7 to view the documents, but I also tried xpdf with the same result. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Create new document with several pages. Insert some text on the first page, mark it as PDF-Comment, set it to type = Link, chose some other page within the document as target and then export the pdf: The link becomes invisible. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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2006-09-17 10:38
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Yep, that's the way pdf links are working. You must use 2 objects. One for the text of the link, and then the link object above the text. |
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That's really a PDF implementation detail though. Couldn't Scribus abstract that so the user can make any object a PDF link, and Scribus will automatically create both the normal object (for visual appearance) and the PDF link object when it outputs the PDF? |
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Oh, maybe I should have read a little bit more about PDF. Still it seems strange to me, I didn't expect that it was default behaviour. What's the use of invisible links? It would be a good idea to abstract the link-feature in Scribus, though this is certainly not one of the most important things to do. However, sorry for bothering you. |
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Have played around a bit with appearance streams today. For link annotations they are ignored by Acrobat Reader. :-( Thats documented in Implementation Note 79 in the Appendix H of the PDF-References. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2006-09-17 10:38 | skunk | New Issue | |
| 2006-09-17 10:38 | skunk | File Added: InvisibleLink.sla | |
| 2006-09-17 20:10 | fschmid | Note Added: 0012547 | |
| 2006-09-18 01:56 |
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Note Added: 0012554 | |
| 2006-09-18 02:31 |
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Status | new => acknowledged |
| 2006-09-18 12:39 | skunk | Note Added: 0012558 | |
| 2006-10-08 09:32 | fschmid | Note Added: 0012846 | |
| 2006-10-08 09:32 | fschmid | Note Edited: 0012846 |
