Re: [docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

On 10/07/2020 16:00, Barton Wright wrote: As I said, PDF-fu. You work for Antenna House, Masters of the PDF Universe. Case, rested. Yes, and no (and yes). Yes, AH Formatter has extensions so that, for example, you can make internal links that zoom in to a particular area on a particular page.

Re: [docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

Forgot to mention that FOP does provide an extension that is supposed to make named destinations work: https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.5/extensions.html#named-destinations When the DocBook stylesheet param fop1.extensions="1" is set, the stylesheet writes the set of elements into the FO

Re: [docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

The problem with FOP, including version 2.5, is that it does not write the original ID values from the DocBook file into the PDF, but substitutes different IDs.  So although DocBook XSL creates the right syntax for linking into the middle of a PDF document, the target IDs don't exist in FOP's

Re: [docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

(Waiting for @ndw to read your post) I think he is playing with an alt to such links, build for Summer conf present. I couldn't find it searching his blog posts... Hang fire until (if) he responds. For me, such inter-doc links were a bit of a kludge. regards On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 16:00,

Re: [docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

Thanks, Tony. As I said, PDF-fu. You work for Antenna House, Masters of the PDF Universe. Case, rested. But, the question for us is whether the DocBook XSL supports generating these links, and does so without using (forgive me) a very expensive FO processor. A quick find -exec grep tells me

Re: [docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

On 10/07/2020 14:17, Barton Wright wrote: ... * PDFs. Yeah, you can’t cross-ref from one PDF into a page or section inside another PDF — or not without profound PDF-fu above my level. There's more options than you ever thought possible. See the example URLs at:

Re: [docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

The 5000-page doc set I support is heavily olinked between books. It’s a glorious thing for end-users, because we never have to repeat basic information in one book, we just cross-reference to it with an olink to a location in another

[docbook-apps] using olinks everywhere?

I have a large collection of user guides in Docbook 4.3 and 5.1, and they have a top-level Docbook files with a element, and sub-chapters are pulled in using xincludes like this: http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude;>         my title                     etc. In the interests of