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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: footnote rollover message in PDFs (with interaction)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 19:59:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51927B8A.8030507@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFMOkGUoGFRCKCfgKzKpipbFfNVxGwyW3SjqDoGFy__Z172VKg@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/14/2013 1:46 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
> The PDFs that I produce are now being read on a number different
> platforms, some with very small screens. So, in the case of footnotes at
> least, I was wondering if there was a way to  produce PDFs such that
> when the cursor passes over the footnote call, the popup message
> includes the entire footnote and not just “Go to page xx”.

i'm thinking of cooking up some support like that for ebook like 
applications but i'll wait till i run into a proper device (also, it 
needs support from the viewer; there are several solutions possible) ... 
i did a lot of that stuff over a decade ago but there waas never much 
interest in it (from publishers)

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-14 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-14 11:46 Alan Bowen
2013-05-14 17:59 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-05-15 12:20   ` Alan Bowen
2013-05-15 13:14     ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-15 14:13       ` Alan Bowen
2013-05-15 14:37         ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-19 14:41           ` Alan Bowen

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