AW: Putting hyperlinks in a PDF document

[Oliver Corff]

Hi Blake,

Without access to a Unix box to try the example I can imagine that the link is 
still ‎there, but transposed so that it does not match with the link text. Can 
you try to click into the white area of the page and search for a clickable 
region at a position where the link would be without rotational transposition?

Just an idea, and no previous experience.

Best,
Oliver.


O. Corff, oliver.corff@email.de
  Originalnachricht  
Von: Blake McBride
Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. November 2022 13:54
An: G. Branden Robinson
Cc: groff mailinglist
Betreff: Re: Putting hyperlinks in a PDF document

I'm sorry. I worded the problem poorly.

-P-l (landscape) works fine. No problem there. It prints in landscape.

The problem is, when I use -P-l it kills the hyperlink code you gave me.

So, -P-l changes the document from portrait to landscape as expected. But
the hyperlink code no longer works.

Thanks!

Blake


On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:06 PM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Blake,
>
> At 2022-11-14T18:43:38-0600, Blake McBride wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Do you mean you are expecting -P-l to format the page in landscape mode,
> or you _weren't_ expecting that?
>
> Please indicate what you were expecting or what you want to accomplish.
>
> If landscape formatting isn't working quite as you expect, bear in mind
> that you have to tell both the formatter _and_ the output driver what
> the orientation is. You also need to tell the mm(7) package to change
> the line length by using the `W` register.
>
> Here's my proof of concept, using half-inch left and right margins.
>
> groff -dpaper=letterl -rW=10i -mm -Tpdf -P-l EXPERIMENTS/hyperlink.mm \
> >| hyperlink.pdf
>
> I've attached the sample document. I made it produce a lot of output so
> you can verify the page margins. If you don't set the `W` register, the
> lines will be too short and centering of the page header will be wrong.
> If you don't set the paper format in the _formatter_ (troff) with the
> `-dpaper` option, then text will be lost because the default page length
> is 11 inches, too long for landscape U.S. paper where the length is 8.5
> inches--the trap that mm(7) sets up to break the body text and write
> the page footer won't be sprung because it is outside the printable
> area.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>