[texhax] [solved] Re: Hyperlinks lost in pdf file

Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.medina at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 19:16:31 CET 2016


"Daniel H. Luecking" <luecking at uark.edu> writes:

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


Yes, with `dvips -z file' it seems to work.  Thanks indeed!

Now I want, also with `tex -> dips -z -> ps2pdf', that outline table of content
on the left side that I had with simply pdftex.  How can I do that?

Thanks again,

Rodolfo



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