Thanks Philip, Sounds like your suggestion could be worth trying.
Could this be attempted by someone without any prior knowledge of the postscript language? Are there any good introductory PDFMARK references on the web? Also, how do you produce a postscript file out of Mapinfo? So far my understanding of the process you described is this: 1. Export my map window as a postscript file. 2. Write a small MBX that will produce a text file with A4 coordinates for each hotlink object - like this: [/Rect [ x1 y1 x2 y2 ] /Action << /Subtype /URI /URI (http://www.somepage.com) >> /Border [ 0 0 2 ] /Color [ .7 0 0 ] /Subtype /Link /ANN pdfmark 3. Insert the header (not sure where this goes?): /pdfmark where {pop} {userdict /pdfmark /cleartomark load put} ifelse /prun { /mysave save def dup = flush RunFile clear cleardictstack mysave restore /dothumbnails } def [ /Count -20 /Title (your map title) /Page 1 /OUT pdfmark (your layout as a postscript file.ps) prun <------ I think the link statements go here (or prior to the prun) /Title ......next map /Page 2 For now just a few questions: 1. Which corner of the page does postscript use as the origin - would this coincide with one of the map window corners? 2. Where does the header get inserted? At the top of the PDFMARK file produced by the MBX? 3. I noticed "Rect" as the hotlink shape, is there such a thing as a polygon in PDFMARK lingo? Cheers, Peter -----Original Message----- From: Philip Waight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 20 September 2002 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MapInfo-L Subject: Re: MI-L PDF hotlink web I think you can do what you want using a Distiller PDFMARK job file. I use these job files to create a single PDF book of multiple layouts with bookmarks as an index to each Layout. I note the following example in the PDFmark guide: % Custom Link action (URI link for the Acrobat WebLink plug-% in) [/Rect [ 50 425 295 445 ] /Action << /Subtype /URI /URI (http://www.adobe.com) >> /Border [ 0 0 2 ] /Color [ .7 0 0 ] /Subtype /Link /ANN pdfmark So this means if you are prepared to print your maps/layouts to an intermediate postscript file and then pass Distiller a job file with the PS reference plus all your hotlinks (mapped to A4 page coords), then it should work well. Some MapBasic which creates the hotlink references should be all you need, then manually plug in the necessary header which looks something like (I have never seen a more cryptic language): /pdfmark where {pop} {userdict /pdfmark /cleartomark load put} ifelse /prun { /mysave save def dup = flush RunFile clear cleardictstack mysave restore /dothumbnails } def [ /Count -20 /Title (your map title) /Page 1 /OUT pdfmark (your layout as a postscript file.ps) prun <------ I think the link statements go here (or prior to the prun) /Title ......next map /Page 2 Phil. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Zyczynski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:06 PM Subject: MI-L PDF hotlink web > Hi all, > > I'm investigating the possibility of using PDF as an alternative to > the HTML Image Map tool that comes with Mapinfo. > > The purpose is to create scalable, zoomable maps of bus routes and bus > stops that will be published to the internet. It appears that PDF is > the easiest way to do this. > > BUT... > > I need the bus stops and bus routes to be clickable objects within the > PDF. When the user clicks on one they are taken to another web page. > Essentially I'm after an embedded hotlink within the PDF. > > Is this possible? > > So far my attempts of using PDF Writer only produced 'dumb' pages, the > hotlink specified within the workspace was ignored in the final PDF. > > Also I'm aware that I can introduce these hotlinks manually using the > editing features of PDF Writer, but this would be impractical as I > have hundreds of pages to produce. > > Am I pursuing a dead end here? > > Cheers, > > Peter Zyczynski > Analyst Programmer > Insight GIS > Australia > Ph: (03) 6234-5833 > Fax: (03) 6234-5899 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.insightgis.com.au > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- - > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 3152 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 3156 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 3184
