08-05-2008, 12:19 AM | #1 |
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pdf hyperlinks to external files - possible?
Hyperlinks in PDF documents can point to either other points in the same document, or they can point to other PDF documents.
I would like to create a dynamically created PDF index of other dynamically created content for my iLiad. I would like this PDF index to open other PDF files, by using PDF hyperlinks. I created a test PDF using Acrobat Professional and added a hyperlink to another PDF file. I verified that the hyperlink was using a relative path and not an absolute path (which is really confusing in Acrobat Professional.) I copied the PDF with the hyperlink and the PDF file the hyperlink references to a different directory and a different PC and the hyperlink worked to open the second PDF file. However when I copy the two PDF files to my iLiad, the hyperlink does not work. Does anyone know if the iLiad PDF viewer supports hyperlinks to external documents? Is it possible to replace it with a PDF viewer that does? Is this dependent on the PDF version by any chance? thank you, -Jim |
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I asked a similar question but related to linking different notes to an external table of contents. I know the notes are not PDF. Based on a previous solution utilizing PDF's for notes I have a feeling what you found is correct but I don't know for sure. It is a good question.
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08-14-2008, 05:13 AM | #3 |
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Implement cross file links in PDF or HTML and you've got a way better contentlister...
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08-14-2008, 05:25 AM | #4 |
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Yeah, I tried file:// links to local PDF files in html and it didn't work either :-(
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08-14-2008, 07:38 AM | #5 |
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Not having tested anything, but...
Even if external links would be supported by the iPDF viewer (I have no idea) you have to account for the fact that your average iLiad file gets moved into a folder having the same name as the original by the iLiad. This breaks even the most relative path you may come up with, because not just your target but also your "table-of-contents-pdf" gets moved one level up (or down - never got the wording right) in your directory tree... Just my two EUR cent... Dirk |
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08-14-2008, 11:29 PM | #6 |
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That's a good point! But since I am uploading all the PDFs as well programatically, I think when I upload the PDFs I could easily emulate the iLiad's scheme of putting the PDF in a folder of the same name, along with manifest.xml file etc. Then the file would never get moved, and I could start linking to it immediately...
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08-15-2008, 06:12 AM | #8 |
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Huh?Say I have a file gold.pdf. I make a new directory /mnt/free/newspapers/gold.pdf. I copy gold.pdf into that directory. Then I make a manifest.xml and a scribble.irx file and also put them in the gold.pdf directory. The contents of the manifest and scribble files are very simple and can easily be created if you simply look at a sample one. How is this difficult?
Then even after the user views gold.pdf for the first time, the location of gold.pdf doesn't change, because it looks to the iLiad just like it has already been viewed (i.e. has the correct folder structure.) |
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Since you are doing just the same with iLiad, why not let iLiad do it for you?
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08-16-2008, 08:57 AM | #10 |
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If you have a "table-of-contents.pdf" you would have to open your "target.pdf"
first via the contentlister to create the path you have coded into your table of contents. Thats obviously not desired... Dirk |
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It also doesn't matter what the directory name is (Though I usually name it the title of the book in a way that I can easily sort). |
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And jimbocho already mentioned "pregenerated manifest" files. Dirk |
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12-09-2008, 07:29 PM | #13 |
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So, what's the bottom line here? Does this work or not?
Frankly, this whole discussion reminds me of Einstein's retort when he heard about the publication of a book called "100 Scientists Against Einstein", stating his relativity theory was erroneous: "If I were wrong, one would have been enough." Have anyone tried this? Does it work or not? |
12-18-2008, 09:35 AM | #14 |
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Sorry, but Einstein is wrong... ehm, links to other PDFs don't work
See the attached files (1.pdf and 2.pdf) which I created from very simple HTML files (1.html and 2.html). The links work on my PC, but not on the device. |
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