RE: How to link to named target in PDF

["Joel Amoussou" <joel -at- efasoft -dot- com>]

John,

There are different ways of doing this depending on the tools and XML
standards you are using. A standardized way would be:

1. Tag the XML link with Xlink: 

<link
xlink:href='http://www.xyz.com/productz.pdf#namedest=named_destination'> or
<link xlink:href='http://www.xyz.com/productz.pdf#page=x'>

2. Transform the XML for product Q into an XSL Formatting Objects (FO)
document:

You will need to create an XSLT transformation like:

<xsl:template match="link">
      <fo:basic-link color="blue">
            <xsl:attribute name="external-destination">
              <xsl:value-of select="@xlink:href"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="*|text()"/>
      </fo:basic-link>
</xsl:template>

The result will be: <fo:basic-link color="blue"
external-destination="http://www.xyz.com/productz.pdf#namedest=named_destina
tion">

3. Use an FO engine like Apache FOP to generate a PDF from the XSL FO
document. The result PDF will contain the appropriate link.


Regards,

Joel Amoussou
Efasoft
S1000D Solutions
http://www.efasoft.com


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John Cornellier
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 11:11 AM
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Subject: How to link to named target in PDF

Hi,

We have documents about Product Z that are produced from Frame to PDF.

We want to create other documents for Product Q in XML, render them into
PDF, and have links in this PDF that refer and open the Product Z
documentation at a given place (not just page 1).

How to do this?

Thanks
John
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