[DM-MUG] entering links using Preview

[Ray Bowler]

At 9:47 PM -0500 4/3/07, kristau wrote:
>I don't think there is a reliable way to do this, considering that not
>everyone will be using the same software to view the PDF files.  For
>instance, under Mac OS X we use Preview by default.  Under Windows
>Acrobat Reader is the most common.  I doubt both of those would handle
>a "jump to page" request from a Web browser in the same manner (if at
>all).

Thanks for the comments. They got me thinking.

It is embedding the links in the page which was concerning me at first.


>Are you trying to obscure contact information from spammers?
>Individual PDF files will probably be a lot of work, but I think it
>would be pretty effective.

This is my wife's family tree which she would like to share with 
relatives. I doubt if there will be any living people in the list.

I am not sure that you could do it with Preview but I have had 
another idea. Reunion, her genealogy program, will create the pages 
in PDF format. My present thought is to create one for each head of 
family and then save it as a JPG. An index would allow selection of 
the individual. Then she says she would like to give the person the 
ability to scroll forward and backward. So each page would allow on 
to go to the beginning, or to the previous family in the list, or to 
go to each of the descendants of that family.

Sorry to be so long winded but you got me thinking this thing out.

>On 3/31/07, Ray Bowler <rbowler at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>I would like to have a list of people on a web site and when one of
>>the names is clicked the viewer would go to that person's entry in a
>>large PDF. Is there any way of doing this without buying expensive
>>software?
>>
>>The alternative is to PDFs of each individual and link the them on
>>the web page.
>>
>>Thanks.
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>>Ray Bowler
>>
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