On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:16:19 +1200
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday 05 August 2006 16:55, Barry wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Does anyone know of a plugin or similar which will allow the insertion
> > of interactive links in a pdf file prepared in oo for on screen display.
> Just a couple of clarifications:-
> 1) Have you got the source of the document in one of OOo's internal 
> formats? Or have you only got the .pdf file which was created in OOo?
> 2) Do the targets of the links in the document only have to link to places 
> in the document or do they have to point at places elsewhere on the WWW?
>    
> > Maybe I should use scribus but that does not jump between text &
> > endnotes/footnotes like oo does while drafting a document.
> Scribus works very well importing text, so you could use a multi-file 
> text editor such as kate, or xemacs etc. and import the texts once you have 
> finished.
> 
> What you want to do is very easy in PdfLatex, and from an initial look at 
> the latest version of LyX it would seem that it's supported. Note that I'm 
> being a bit vague because I've not actually done it.
> 
> http://www.lyx.org/

I am pretty sure that reportlab will do this, but it is more a programmers 
toolkit, ie you can write a python script to produce pdf docs. 


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