Re: [xep-support] DocBook olink in PDF

Hi,
As far as I can tell, XEP can form PDF-to-PDF links when the reference
begins with "file:" and is a relative path, not an absolute path. I can't
explain it, but that seems to work. Your goal is to have the FO file
contain something like this:

<fo:basic-link external-destination="url(file:booktest.pdf#chap1)"

In order to get the above result, the DocBook target database <document>
element should have an attribute like:

baseuri="file:booktest.pdf"

When this is working, the cursor in Adobe Reader appears as a plain hand.
When it is a browser link, the hand has a "w" on it.

What I don't get in your setup is where the file:///C:\Documents\ part is
coming from, as it seems to get tacked on before the baseuri value. Does
that show up in the FO file in the external-destination, or only in the
hover display?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

----- Original Message -----
From: <mdamkier@versant.com>
To: <xep-support@renderx.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:19 AM
Subject: [xep-support] DocBook olink in PDF

> Hello all,
> I am using DocBook 4.5 and 1.32.0 XSL (and 1.51.1) with XEP 4.9. My system
> is Windows XP.
> I have just started to experiement with cross-document links in PDFs using
> <olink>. (Following the instructions in Bob Stayton's DocBook XSL book.)
> Everything seems to be working fine. The targets.db files seem to be
> correctly created and the links do show up in the PDF.
> But I cannot get the Acrobat reader to open the link as a PDF. Rather it
> insists on opening the browser. I can control whether the PDF opens in the
> browser or the browser asks to open in Acrobat, but that is not right. I
> want to open the PDF directly in Acrobat.
> When I hover on the link in the PDF, it has the correct path with the
> file: protocol tacked on, e.g., file:///C:\Documents\Doc1.pdf#fragmentid.
> If I add the file: protocol to the baseuri attribute in the targetset's
> <document> tag (as mentioned in Stayton) then the PDF link is
> file:///C:\Documents\file:Doc1.pdf#idfragment.
> Hopefully, someone has worked this out and can let me know what I am doing
> wrong.
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Michael Damkier
> mdamkier@versant.com
>
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