[gentoo-user] Add hyperlinks to PDF?

[gentoo-user] Add hyperlinks to PDF?

[Daniel Frey]

Is there any open source tool to add hyperlinks to a PDF? I've scanned a
manual of mine to put on my tablet and used pdftk to assemble all the
individual PDFs and generate bookmarks, but it doesn't seem to be able
to add links.

All I'm trying to do is link to pages in the same PDF.

libreoffice imports a PDF but it doesn't import the bookmarks properly,
so on export everything is overwritten.

I'm not trying to modify the pages (i.e. the text) itself, just add links.

I'm currently compiling inkscape, but I've read it "imports" PDF so I'm
not so hopeful it will work as my experience with libreoffice wasn't so
good.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Add hyperlinks to PDF?

[Andrew Savchenko]

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On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 11:36:44 -0700 Daniel Frey wrote:
> Is there any open source tool to add hyperlinks to a PDF? I've scanned a
> manual of mine to put on my tablet and used pdftk to assemble all the
> individual PDFs and generate bookmarks, but it doesn't seem to be able
> to add links.

I use xelatex to create PDF documents (pdflatex can also be used),
it has nice hyperref package which allows to manage PDF hyperlinks.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-user] Add hyperlinks to PDF?

[Daniel Frey]

On 04/09/2016 10:28 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 11:36:44 -0700 Daniel Frey wrote:
>> Is there any open source tool to add hyperlinks to a PDF? I've scanned a
>> manual of mine to put on my tablet and used pdftk to assemble all the
>> individual PDFs and generate bookmarks, but it doesn't seem to be able
>> to add links.
> 
> I use xelatex to create PDF documents (pdflatex can also be used),
> it has nice hyperref package which allows to manage PDF hyperlinks.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko
> 

Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out later today. I'm trying to do
the update to plasma now, hitting some bumps.

Dan