Re: Links in postscript

[Albert Kinderman]

According to the pdfmark primer (a chapter taken from WEB Publishing
with Acrobat/PDF by Thomas Merz), the border parameters [x x x] define
the rectangle's appearance - "line width and line dash."   [0 0 0] is no
border.  If Merz is correct and if the last number is the width of the
border line, then the first two numbers would define how the border is
dashed - how long and how far apart.

I know this isn't the answer, but the solution might come from
experimentation (which I haven't done).

On the other side of the issue, I sometimes want to add pdfmarks to my
postscript output, for example to put a live url in a ps document for my
web site.  I do this by editing my lout output by hand.  Would you
consider adding some pdfmark capability to lout to generate the correct
pdf/ps code directly?  If the capability is already there, I don't know
how to find it. 

Al
  

Jeff Kingston wrote:
> 
> 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

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Albert Kinderman             California State University, Northridge
Department of Management Science           address@hidden