[pdftex] colorlinks=true in ps2pdf

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 23:59:53 CEST 2005


On 7/28/05, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> >>>>> "Victor" == Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> AFAIK that's not that easy.  PostScript doesn't know about hyperlinks
> at all, but there is an operator called "pdfmark" which allows you to
> insert PDF code into a ps file.  It is ignored by your printer, but it
> is evaluated by ps2pdf.  I assume that html2ps makes use of it.

 Yes, it does. 
> 
> What you have to do is to write a program which modifies the argument
> of pdfmark accordingly.  But this requires some knowledge about PDF.
> 

If I generate two ps files from latex with colorlinks=true and
colorlinks=false and found very irregular differences in the tokens
/pdfmark             pdfmark end

So I am afraid that  "some knowledge about PDF" is not enough
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Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto



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