Re: Putting hyperlinks in a PDF document

[Blake McBride]

Thanks.  That helped a lot!

However, if I use "-P-l" on the command line, it doesn't work.  Strange.
That makes it print in landscape mode.  Any idea what is going on?

Thanks!

Blake McBride


On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 5:31 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Blake,
>
> At 2022-11-14T16:55:03-0600, Blake McBride wrote:
> > I am trying:
> >
> > .UR https://yahoo.com
> > Yahoo
> > .UE
> >
> >
> > And then calling:  groff -mm -t -Tpdf <file.mm >file.pdf
> >
> > "Yahoo" shows but is not clickable.
> >
> > Sure appreciate some help!
>
> The problem is that no one has yet written hyperlinking extension macros
> for the groff mm(7) package.
>
> However, you can still get the job done fairly straightforwardly.
>
> .P
> Hello, world!
> .
> Join us now and share the
> .pdfhref W -D https://gnu.org/ -A . software
>
> You can format that with "groff -mm -T pdf".
>
> The only place the "pdfhref" macro is documented is in the "pdfmark.ms"
> document in the groff distribution.  It should be installed (as a PDF)
> as part of a groff build (or prepared package from an OS distributor).
>
> Let me know if you need further assistance.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>