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Re: Hyperlinks in PDF -- should they be visible or not?
Subject:Re: Hyperlinks in PDF -- should they be visible or not? From:Leslie Turriff <jlturriff -at- centurytel -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:59:08 -0600
On Friday 22 January 2010 19:49:34 Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> Same here. IMO, the only reason to make a "print formatted" PDF and
> not make the links stand out is if you're planning to send it to a print
> shop to produce printed docs. And it shouldn't be all that hard to use
> condiional text or plain old search-and-replace for styles to switch the
> master doc files bsck and forth even if you don't use a multichannel
> publishing tool.
>
> If it was up to me, I'd keep the index for PDF viewing too, and make all
> the entries jumps. I'd have to think about whether the whole entry
> ought to be colored and underlined. Maybe just the page numbers...
>
I would think that in the index, where almost everything is likely going
to be a jump, coloring and underlining are unnecessarily noisy; the only
reason to do that would be for consistency, I suppose.
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