DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Footnote and ulink's in Acrobat Reader PDFs createdby openjade

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif@vipe.technion.ac.il>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Doug du Boulay wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 17:40, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm trying to create nice, functional Acrobat Reader PDFs with openjade.
> > (i.e: db2pdf). Now, I get valid PDFs except for the following problems:
> >
> > 1. <footnote>'s are displayed as a number after the text, and I cannot
> > find their text anywhere (nor is the number clickable).
>
> I seem to be getting the same results as you. Having looked at your PDF
> you will find (as I do) that all your footnotes are at the very end of the
> chapter. I haven't checked the stylesheet code yet but I used the following
> definition, without success.
>

I'm not using any stylesheet (at least not now).

> (define %bop-footnotes%
>   ;; Make "bottom-of-page" footnotes?
>   #t)
>
> When you have a hundred odd page chapter and the footnotes all turn up at the
> end (and not at bop!), finding where the notes originate from is rather
> difficult :-/
>
> > 2. <ulink>'s are not clickable or marked in blue.
>
> In case you missed it,  Kevin Dunn just posted a fix for that to the list  a
> few hours ago!
>

Thanks!

I don't really follow this list closely. I'll try to apply the fix.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> doug
>



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