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[philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx]

Michael wrote:
>>Internal hyperlinks willl be very hard to detect, I guess.
> 
> And also to decide what is an anchor and what a link.
> (ie. figure description or reference to figure)

"Oh God!" (tm)
I'm glad to have NOT volunteer for this point in task-list, 
but I wish you Good Luck!
;-)

> BTW patterns in PDFs do not crash Acrobat Reader any more!
> So it will be enabled by default.

Great news!
One more step to the ultimate PDF Writer driver :-)
 
> [implementation detail:
> PDF allows two kind of patterns, one that take the current
> active stroke and fill colors and one that define them inside
> of the pattern definition.
> 
> As the pattern used by PDF Writer consists only of a bitmap,
> I thought I could use the first kind, because the pattern
> does not stroke or fill anything. Don't know why but this
> crashes Acrobat Reader.
> ]

So now you define a pattern definition?
Acrobat Reader is far from being the best PDF Reader, which is 
a paradox. BePDF *is* the best one...  what a shame it only came 
in BeOS flavor!
:-p
 
> Thanks for your feedback, this will help a lot!

That's the least I can do for this project.
Unfortunnatly, it's also the most (or short) I can do at the moment.
[Oh god, how I hate these KDL trips, it's funny the ten first times, 
but now it's a little annoying... maybe because KDL jump on me 
because of my own bug, I guess :-) ]

Keep doing great job, I love the autoscroll-to-focus in 
the doc info window.

-Philippe, in a weird back-to-childhood mood this morning.