> From: Victor Mote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: fox:destination
>
>
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> > while browsing the source of the maintenance branch I found out that FOP
> > already has support for creating anchors within PDF files
> (things that can
> > be addressed using URL fragment identifiers). It seems that?it
> works just
> > fine.
> >
> > Why is this missing from the documentation?
>
> If you are saying that there is a fox:destination extension that creates
> named destinations in a PDF, then the reason that *I* haven't  documented
it
> is that I didn't know about it. However, there is, IMO, another problem

It has been added in February:

"Added new extension element for defining named destinations (PDF)
Submitted by: Lloyd McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Stefan Wachter"

> here, and that is that I don't think that should be an extension, but
should
> work off of the "id" attribute. Right now "id"s can be targets, but AFAIK
> they don't create named destinations. I can't think of a good reason why
> targets shouldn't be named destinations, so that two birds are killed with
> one stone. I suppose there might be some file size advantage in some

Actually I absolutely agree here.

> situations, so maybe it should be configurable. I suppose that any changes
> will need to be in the redesign, and that we should just document the
> existing behavior for now.

Right.

> At any rate, if you'll write something up and post it, I'll test  it and
get
> it into the doc. Thanks for pointing this out.

OK, I'll try.

Julian

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