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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Rodolfo Medina wrote<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">>In order to have a pdf file: if I process my plain TeX file.tex with `pdftex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">>file', all the hyperlinks are correctly generated, whereas with:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> tex file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> dvips file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> ps2pdf file.ps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">>they are all lost. Why does this happen, and how can I avoid it since I need<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">>performing the tex -> dvips -> ps2pdf cycle instead of using pdftex?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">What package or commands are you using in your tex file to create hyperlinks
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">in plain pdftex? Presumably, you need to modify those so that they use dvips
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">specials instead of pdftex specials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Can you post a short example?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Also, you may need to use
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> dvips –z file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">to put hyperlinks in the ps file where ps2pdf can see them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Good luck,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Daniel H. Luecking<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Dept. of Mathematical Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">University of Arkansas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Fayetteville, AR, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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