Re: [docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Forgot to mention that FOP does provide an extension that is supposed to make named destinations work:

https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.5/extensions.html#named-destinations

When the DocBook stylesheet param fop1.extensions="1" is set, the stylesheet writes the set of <fox:destination> elements into the FO file for that purpose. But they don't seem to actually work in the PDF. There is an open bug report on this at the Apache site:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2839

Bob Stayton
bobs@sagehill.net

On 7/10/2020 10:30 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:

The problem with FOP, including version 2.5, is that it does not write the original ID values from the DocBook file into the PDF, but substitutes different IDs. So although DocBook XSL creates the right syntax for linking into the middle of a PDF document, the target IDs don't exist in FOP's PDF.

Bob Stayton
bobs@sagehill.net

On 7/10/2020 8:00 AM, Barton Wright wrote:

Thanks, Tony.

As I said, PDF-fu. You work for Antenna House, Masters of the PDF Universe. Case, rested.

But, the question for us is whether the DocBook XSL supports generating these links, and does so without using (forgive me) a very expensive FO processor. A quick find -exec grepÂtells me our doc set has about 10,500 olinks. No one is going to fix those manually.

On Jul 10, 2020, at 10:28 AM, Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp> wrote:

On 10/07/2020 14:17, Barton Wright wrote:
...

Â* PDFs. Yeah, you canât cross-ref from one PDF into a page or section
ÂÂÂinside another PDF â or not without profound PDF-fu above my level.

There's more options than you ever thought possible. ÂSee the example
URLs at:

ÂÂhttps://www.antenna.co.jp/AHF/help/v70e/ahf-ext.html#pdf-link

and the eight-page (four pages of actual content) "PDF Open Parameters"
spec at:

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDFOpenParameters.pdf

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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Senior Architect
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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Skerries, Ireland
tgraham@antenna.co.jp

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