Re: [Groff] pdfroff - links always go to the top of the page

[Louis Guillaume]

On 2/8/12 8:11 AM, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 07/02/12 13:08, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> > Is there a way to make `.pdfhref' or `.pdfbookmark' links go to the
> > sections themselves ...
>
> For me, that's exactly what they do, by default, both with Adobe
> Reader-9, and with Evince-2.32.0/poppler/cairo-0.14.3

Just tried with Acrobat Reader on Windows and you're right! It does work 
there. But it does not work properly on Preview on OS X (Snow Leopard). 
However other PDFs with bookmarks and/or links do work in Preview.

I wonder if there's some good reason that Preview is behaving like this 
just for the pdfroff output. Looking through the PDF contents is not 
shedding any light for me.

> > ... rather than to the page that the target is on?
>
> I do seem to recall seeing similar behaviour with an older version of
> Evince, or maybe with kpdf, (in the Ubuntu-8.04 era); Adobe Reader has
> never, IME, exhibited such behaviour.
>
> > For example, my headings are done like this...
> >
> > .NH 1
> > .XN -N CONTACTINFORMATION -- CONTACT INFORMATION
> > .LP
> >
> > ... then the link is like this...
> >
> > .pdfhref L -D CONTACTINFORMATION  --  Contact Information
>
> You don't say, but I'm guessing that you're using the sample -mspdf,
> which accompanies the pdfroff/pdfmark distribution?  That looks okay to
> me; certainly not significantly different from my own usage.

Before I was using `.pdfbookmark' entries for each heading, and had the 
same problem. So I decided to use `.XN' instead. But it didn't seem to 
change anything.

I did use the pdfmark document as a guide, and I'm building with

 pdfroff --no-toc-reloc -stp -mspdf -dpaper=letter -P-pletter

There are no fancy macros or anything.

Thanks for looking.

Louis