That’s great. I can see that
the named destinations now exist. However, if I can’t link to them…
To get links between local PDF files I don’t
think PDF links with a fragment identifier are needed, I think FOP needs
to translate the FO link to something like:
</D(name-of-destination)/F 1126 0
R/S/GoToR>>
<</F(myfile.pdf)/Type/Filespec>>
rather than a <<URI (myfile.pdf#frag)
So I suspect it may be a problem with the
type of link generated by FOP.
Tim
From: Bob Stayton
[mailto:]
Sent: 20 April 2005 09:20
To: Bob Stayton;
;
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] PDF
named destinations using FOP
I checked into CVS the changes to fo/fop.xsl to
insert the fox:destination elements for everything that has an id
attribute. You could try out the snapshot build. Be sure to set the
stylesheet parameter insert.olink.pdf.frag to 1 so the fragment identifier is
output to the FO file.
But I'm still a bit discouraged with how poorly
supported linking between PDF files is with the current PDF readers. I
could not get links between local PDF files working if they included fragment
identifiers. If there is a fragment identifier, then the PDF output has
"/URI (myfile.pdf#frag)". If you try to browse this locally with
Acrobat Reader, it thinks you want http://myfile.pdf#frag,
which does not work. I tried various combinations of file: protocols, but
none worked for me on Windows XP. I could only get fragment identifiers
to work if I used an absolute URL to a file I installed at that address on my
website. Not very flexible.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Stayton
To:
;
Sent: Tuesday, April 19,
2005 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps]
PDF named destinations using FOP
Hi Tim,
Other XSL-FO processors like XEP and XSL Formatter
automatically convert id attributes to named destinations. I didn't know
that FOP required a separate extension to do that. I'll see if I can get
that working.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Casling
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 19,
2005 1:07 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] PDF
named destinations using FOP
Hi,
Has anybody implemented the fox:destination extension
with the docbook fo stylesheet? I did a web search and there were
suggestions that the default behaviour should be to convert IDs into PDF named
destinations, but currently this doesn’t happen with FOP.
Tim
