[open-beos-printing] Re: Next PDF Writer Release

> >As some of you may know, I'm currently more involved in the OBOS 
> >net=3D5Fkit 
> >than print=3D5Fkit, but by your proposed time frame I'll do or first 
point 
> >("cancellation of save as file" bug) or update to PDFlib 4.0.2 
(hoping 
> >it will not introduce some nasty new behavior here and there...)
> >You tell me.
> 
> Ok, please make the first point.

ACK: first point taken.
 
> BTW I will try to detect and add external hyperlinks to a PDF file in 
> a future release, no problem.

Great!
This would be one more killer driver's feature.
 
> Any idea how to handle internal hyperlinks or how to detect 
bookmarks. 

Internal hyperlinks willl be very hard to detect, I guess.
As they can jumb forward or backward in pages, it'll need to do a first 
pass 
over all pages, just to build a sort of index (title, page, position in 
page=3F) in memory, 

By looking up at this index during rendition, maybe it will possible to 
detect a internal hyperlink 
and insert one. It could help to build an auto-bookmarks too. 

> For bookmarks, what comes to my mind first is to identify a title by 
> font name and size.

Yes, that's a pragmatic way to do it. 
No better one come to my mind, but I'm not a natural text parsing 
expert.
Maybe you could find on Net some clever solution, I'll bet some open 
source 
projects here and there have implemented a text auto-indexer or auto-
summary maker.

BTW, if you add this first pass thing, you could count the total 
BPicture(s) operand for all pages too, 
which could make the progress status window even more accurate... most 
accurate, in fact.

-Philippe.

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