[pdftex] Dashed lines in \pdfannot

[Gerree Pecht]

Hi,

I don't understand what eTeX is??? I work on a Linux system ...
can this be used on Linux?  What OS are you using?

G. :-)

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, James Quirk wrote:

> Heiko,
>
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 01:23:49PM -0700, James Quirk wrote:
>>
>>>> AR7/Linux also needs "/W 1".
>>> The PDF Reference indicates that the /W entry is optional,
>>> with a default value of 1, and my AR7.0.8/Linux is happy
>>> when /W is left out.
>>
>> My AR 7.0.8 05/22/2006 shows nothing, if /W is left out.
> That's the same version of acroread that I'm using. Therefore I guess the
> difference in behaviour is that your settings are different to mine, or we
> are simply looking at different cases. Anyhow, the LaTeX file I used to
> answer Victor's question is:
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \begin{document}
> \section{Lines}
> \pdfannot {
>  /Subtype /Line
>  /L [400 600 300 756]
>  /LE [/ROpenArrow /RClosedArrow]
>  /Border [5 3 2]
>  /BS <<  /S /D /D [8 4 ] >>
>  /IC [1 0 0]
>  /C [0 0 0]
>  /Cap true
>  /Contents (The quick brown fox)
> }
> \end{document}
>
> which I processed using:
>
>   pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>
> to get:
>
>   http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~jjq/DashedAnnot.pdf
>
> It's worth noting that for a Line annotation the /BS entry
> controls the appearance of the line and not the rectangular
> border surrounding the widget as would be the case for other
> annotation types, say as in your example. And I suspect that
> this dual nature of the /BS dictionary is where the difference
> in our viewing experience lies. In fact this test file:
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> \pdfannot {
>   /Type /Annot
>   /BS <<  /S/D /D [8 4 ] /W 1>>
>   /Rect [100 600 300 600]
>   /Subtype/Link/A <</Type/Action/S/URI/URI(http://www.tug.org)>>
> }
> \end{document}
>
> confirms that to be the case.
>
> James
>
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Gerree P. Pecht
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