Re: Two suggestions for documentation

[Karlin High]

On 2/17/2018 8:49 AM, David Wright wrote:
> A side-effect of doing it this way is that a hard copy
> of the PDF doesn't have 26 useless navigational blobs printed at
> various points.

I've seen PDF files that had non-printing navigational features. I don't 
know how that's done, or if GhostScript could do it. Having the index 
"bookmark" contain a sub-list of alphabet bookmarks seems more do-able.

For an example of non-printing navigational features and more, here is 
the most "advanced" PDF I know: Missouri's auto-calculating state income 
tax return. At print time it generates a 2-D barcode for the Department 
of Revenue's data entry folks to scan, I assume that automatically keys 
in all the info for them. (If for some reason the tax return can't be 
e-filed, and needs a paper copy mailed in.)

http://dor.mo.gov/forms/MO-1040%20Fillable%20Calculating_2017.pdf

It probably needs Adobe Reader for the full effect. At some point, this 
PDF stops being a "document" and becomes "tax software."
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA