Re: Links in postscript

[Jeff Kingston]

Does anyone want to comment on the issue raised below?  I agree with
Dave that the black rectangles you get in 3.24 are unsightly, so
I have modified Lout to implement what his sed command does.  However
Dave speaks as though one would want this to be optional, which I
haven't done because I don't see why.

Also if anyone can tell me what the first two numbers in [0 0 0]
are for I would be grateful.  The pdfmark reference manual I have
calls them "horizontal corner radius" and "vertical corner radius",
which leaves me none the wiser except that I suspect I don't care
about it much, whatever it is.

Jeff Kingston


On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:04:02 -0500, Slomium Catfish wrote:
  > 
  > 
  > I'm using version 3.24 of lout.  This version generates links in the
  > postscript for, as an example, the table of contents.  I convert the
  > postscript to pdf via Acrobat Distiller.  The generated pdf has a black
  > rectangle around each linked item in the contents.
  > 
  > Would it be possible to include options in lout to control the appearance of
  > links?  Currently, i run a korn shell script (included at end of message)
  > over the postscript to make the links invisible.
  > 
  > I realize that there are other, far more important things that could be
  > worked on in Lout, so, if including these options is at all a hassle, please
  > let this fall to the bottom of the request list.
  > 
  > Thanks,
  > Dave
  > 
  > #
  > #       Makes links with rectangles plain for Lout postscript output.
  > #
  > infile=${1:?"Missing Filename"}
  > for fid in $@
  > do
  > 
  > outfile=${fid%.ps}_wl.ps
  > sed "s/\/Subtype \/Link/\/Border [0 0 0] \/Subtype \/Link/g" $infile >
  > $outfile
  > print $outfile
  > 
  > done