[xep-support] [docbook-apps] Internal document links - best practices?

David Tolpin dvd at davidashen.net
Fri Oct 22 02:02:32 PDT 2004


And I meant 'protocol', not 'scheme', sorry for the confusion.

David

> > At 03:10 AM 10/22/2004 +0500, you wrote:
> > >Do you a link from one PDF file to another one to work when
> > >the file is opened in Acrobat Reader?
> > 
> > Yes, this is what we want.
> 
> As it is explained in the documentation (Reference, note for 
> 'external-destination' attribute), you should use explicit file:
> scheme.
> 
> ulink url="file:other.pdf"
> 
> will generated a link to the other pdf which works directly from
> Acrobat Reader.
> 
> > Can you give me some idea of what's involved? Is the "remote" case a 
> > straightforward variation on the "local" case, or ......?
> 
> Acrobat Reader cannot open remote files as PDF links; it can only
> do it through an external browser, in which case you should not
> use file: url scheme, but the actual scheme instead,  http: or
> just relative, and you must have browser configured.
> 
> David Tolpin
> 
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