I mean only user-accessible URLs.

Wes

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On Aug 7, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]> wrote:

> Depends on whether you mean user-accessible links or ANY links.  
> 
> Also, you mean only URL's or also other types of external references?
> 
> The best place for you to start is ISO 32000-1:2008, the PDF standard.  Start 
> reading….
> 
> Leonard
> 
> From: Wes Gamble <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Post here <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 17:48:04 -0700
> To: Post here <[email protected]>
> Subject: [iText-questions] How many different ways are there to specify an 
> external link in a PDF document?
> 
> I am trying to discover the locations of existing external (only) links in a 
> PDF document.
> 
> I have looked into this some within the context of iText and other tools and 
> one of Bruno's responses mentioned that there were many ways to specify a 
> link in a PDF.  
> 
> I am aware of two so far:
> 
> 1) The author could create an "annotation" which would be discoverable by 
> iText via looking through PDF dictionary information
> 
> 2) The author could simply embed "http://whatever.com/whatever"; into their 
> text and this would automatically be seen as a link by Adobe Reader.
> 
> How many other ways are there for a PDF author to specify that a particular 
> piece of text is a link to an external resource?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wes
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