On 10 Mar 2016, at 23:51, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
wrote:
Here's an update on the status of clicking on a link to the (PDF) User's Guide in
the GUI help text. The precise effect depends on the platform and the PDF viewer. There
are two questions:
1) Does the platform/viewer support opening the PDF at a specified "named
destination" at all?
2) If so, what happens on a second click on a GUI help-text link, pointing to a different
chapter: will the viewer obligingly update the read position in the PDF file, or do you
only get one shot?
Linux:
evince: Yes on question 1, and Yes on the update in question 2.
xpdf: Yes on question 1; opens a new window in re. question 2.
okular: Supposed to be Yes on question 1, according to the docs; I don't know about
question 2. (I'm not in a position to test.)
other viewers: I'm not aware of any others that will cooperate.
Windows:
Adobe Acrobat/Acrobat Reader: Yes on 1, and also Yes on updating the viewing position now
that I've added some DDE code (in git and snapshots).
other viewers: I'm not aware of any others that will cooperate.
Mac:
Nothing doing, so far as I can see. I can't get Adobe products to do anything useful,
nor the native Apple Preview.app. I can't find any relevant documentation. I did try a
few experiments aimed at Acrobat Reader DC, but to no effect.
Mac:
Could/can Skim do it?
BTW: TexShop seems to have a way of jumping between a pdf and the corresponding
"paragraph" in a .tex file and vice versa..
Maybe that's worth investigating.
Berend
Allin
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