Re: [docbook-apps] crosslinking between pdf documents

Bob,
  Thanks for the info! neither gentoo nor ubuntu has 1.76.1 packaged
yet.  I'll have to download and install it manually this evening and
test.

i keep getting xsltproc and fop confused.
We call 'xmlto --with-fop' so it does use fop.

Matt

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bob Stayton <> wrote:
> I'm not sure what is in xmlto, but if it is using FOP, and if the version of
> the DocBook stylesheets is less than 1.76.1, then this problem can be fixed
> by upgrading to version 1.76.1 of the stylesheets.  This is the closed bug
> report on this issue:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3029845&group_id=21935&atid=373747
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> 
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Dew" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 12:32 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] crosslinking between pdf documents
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>  I've got a collection of docs to be outputted in pdf (and html) and
>> the docs contain links to other docs in the collection.
>> I've got olink working with the html. It links correctly with chunk
>> and no-chunk.
>>
>> I'm can't get the links to work between pdf docs though.    It opens
>> the first page of the targetdoc, not the section the link points to.
>>
>> I'm using xsltproc (xmlto) and read that  xsltproc removes the fragment
>> ids.
>>
>> I've tried insert.olink.pdf.frag=1 but that doesn't work either;
>> acroread tries to open a bad address inside the web browser.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> thanks.
>> matt
>>
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