[pdftex] (fwd) pdftex bug in hyperlinks across page boundaries and footnotes

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:22:21AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

> On 02.08.04 Heiko Oberdiek (oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de) wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:46:05AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> 
> Hello Heiko,
> 
> > > \documentclass[a5paper]{article}
> > > \usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
> > > \begin{document}
> > > abc\footnote{def}\hyperlink{ghi}{jkl\newpage mno}
> > > \vskip 30ex
> > > \hypertarget{ghi}{pqrs}
> > > \end{document}
> > 
> > This is the missing color stack problem.
> > Current solution:
> > 
> > \usepackage{color}
> > \usepackage{pdfcolmk}
> > 
> So, I guess this is still an open bug (or rather missing feature of
> pdfTeX) and your pdfcolmk is just a work around. No I don't ask,
> whether there will be a real solution[TM] RSN.

Even worse, for a "real solution" you have to
redesign TeX (NTS, ExTeX, ...). Also the color stack
of dvips is just a "work around". (But it is helpful
in many cases.)

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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