Re: Why no hyperlinking?

On Thursday 23 March 2006 15:00, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:51:31 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz@yahoo.com>
> > To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> > Subject: Re: Why no hyperlinking?
> >
> > > works in abiword itself. But when I "print" the file as foo.pdf then
> > > the pdf file doesn't have the hyperlink. My objective is a pdf
> > > document with a working hyperlink to an url.
> > >
> > > Further suggestions?
> >
> > It's known, can can't currently be done.
>
> It cannot be done directly, however you can use the Abiword LaTeX export
> (not all features are supported by the LaTeX exporter) and then use
> latexpdf to convert to PDF with hyperlinks intact. (And I see you are
> using KMail so you must be using some kind of Unix like system where
> getting latexpdf shouldn't be a huge problem.)
>

Yes, I use TeX all the time. I have a friend who had an MSWord
file. He wanted a hyperlink to site "x" that really went to site
"y." I did all that in Abiword by saving the file as LaTeX and
then using pdflatex to generate the pdf file. That pdf works on
my system (Linux) but not on his (Mac of some variety.)

Now that is confusing.

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