Re: goto with external document

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Matthew Baker wrote:

> I'm trying to make a PDF file (actually a collection of linked PDF files)
> idiot-proof.  I have a top-level PDF file with links to others.  When you
> click on the others, they close themselves (\goto{....}[CloseDocument]).
> The trouble is, if the user doesn't have Acrobat set up to open links in
> separate windows, the top level document disappears because it's already
> been replaced by the other document.  Anyway around this?  Can you make a
> \goto go to the previous view if it is the only open window and close the
> document otherwise?  Or something similar?  I can't provide two buttons
> because the linked-to document only contains one thing: an image.
> 
> Of course, the user can click on the back arrow instead of clicking on the
> document but that requires a bit of brain and I can't guarrantee the users
> would have that unfortunately.

In spec-fdf.tex search for: 

             {\uppercasestring R /F (#4.pdf)\to\PDFfile}}% /GotoR

and change it into 

             {/NewWindow true \upper.....}}%

maybe that works (untested). If so, I can add it as an option. 

Hans

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