Re: [docbook-apps] olinking between PDFs - open target in new window

[Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins.us@gmail.com>]

What viewer are you using to view the PDFs and follow the link?

I'm using docbook-xsl-ns-1.78.0. If I add the olink.properties
customization (shown on the page you mention) to my customization
layer, following a link from one PDF to another will open a new Adobe
Reader window.

Possible regression from 1.78.0 to 1.78.1? Or something to do with the
viewing software? I'm using Adobe Reader 11.0.3.

Also, I'm using FOP 1.0

Peter

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Bergfrid Skaara
<bergfrid.digitaldias@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to set up olinks between PDFs using stylesheet version
> 1.78.1 with our company customization layer, working with tool bundle of
> oXygen 15.0 (Saxon, FOP, etc).
>
> The olink points to the xml:id of a chapter. Clicking the link correctly
> opens the target PDF and scrolls to the correct chapter. However, it does
> not open the target in a new window despite adding show-destination="new" to
> olink.properties as described in
> http://sagehill.net/docbookxsl/OlinkPrintOutput.html#OlinkNewWindow.
>
> It looks like attribute set xref.properties is used in this case rather than
> olink.properties, changes to olink.properties has no effect on the output
> link.  I tested it by changing the color attribute in the sets, and the
> links in the generated PDF are the color specified within the xref set and
> not the olink set.
>
> Any idea why olink.properties is ignored, or even better, what I have to do
> / look for in order to implement "open target in new window"?
>
> Best regards
> Bergfrid Skaara