DOCBOOK: Re: ULink problem in PDF produced with Saxon/FOP

[Andy Chase <monkey@greyledge.net>]

Never mind.  I just figured out that I the fop.extensions parameter 
needs to be set to "1".

Sheepishly,

-Andy

Andy Chase wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've finally run into a problem that I can't find any other online 
> references to!
> 
> I've got a DocBook 4.1.2 document that I want to make available in XHTML 
> and PDF format.  I've been using Saxon and the DocBook XSL stylesheets 
> 1.57.0 to do the conversions, and FOP 0.20.3 to process the resulting FO 
> file into PDF.
> 
> XHTML output is a breeze, no worries at all.  However, in my PDF files 
> the URLs from a Ulink tag aren't working.  For example, say I had this 
> ulink:
> 
> <ulink url="http://somesite.com";>http://somesite.com</ulink>
> 
> In the PDF file the linked text would show correctly as
> 
> http://somesite.com
> 
> But upon mousing over the linked text in Acrobat Reader, the link URL 
> shows up as:
> 
> url(http://somesite.com)
> 
> Which means they don't work when clicked upon in Acrobat reader; what I 
> need is for the link URL to be simply
> 
> http://somesite.com
> 
> I've been over the FO stylesheet parameter reference a few times, but I 
> can't find anything that might cause this behavior.  I'm not familiar 
> enough with XSL or FO to determine whether the problem is with the 
> stylesheet or the way FOP processes it... has anyone reported this 
> problem before?