Re: Hyperlinks to locations in other documents-repost

[Nigel King <king@dircon.co.uk>]

Hans,

> From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
> At 09:58 15/08/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>> Guys,
>> Sorry to repost this but do the rest of you manage to hyperlink to locations
>> in other documents successfully, this is a small annoyance which I would
>> really like to solve.
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> --
>> Nigel
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to get a group of documents to link together. The references to
>> the other document work but the hyperlinks only open the document on the
>> first page.
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> The linktest1 has links to testdoc2. For those trying them you may need to
>> change the font part since my fonts are non standard (subject of other
>> problems).
>> 
>> Key lines from testdoc1.tex are
>> \useexternaldocument[testdoc][testdoc2][This document is a test link]
>> \goto{contents}[testdoc::contents]
>> 
>> And key lines from testdoc2.tex are
>> \page[yes]
>> \section[contents]{Contents List}
> 
> I made a small test file
> 
> \setupoutput[pdftex] \pdfcompresslevel=0
> 
> \setupinteraction[state=start]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \chapter[one]{One}
> 
> \goto {document} [testtest::]
> 
> \goto {chapter 2} [testtest::two]
> 
> \chapter[two]{Two}
> 
> nothing here
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> (and its mirror testtest.tex)
> 
> Now, somehow this works in acrobat 5 but not in acrobat 6! Creating a link
> in acrobat 6 manually also does not work. Looks like a bug in acrobat 6,
> but before i look into it in more detail i want confirmation from other users

I confirm that the problem does appear to be Acrobat which at 4.05 does the
expected actions and at 6 does not. I no longer have 5 to test.

> 
> (an option is to cross link docs by page number)

I haven't tried cross linking by page numbers because I do not think I know
how to do it!

Thanks very much.

Nigel