[OS X TeX] opening files with hyperref?

[chip brock]

On 5/27/02 7:02 PM, "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au> wrote:

>> hi
>> 
>> I wondered if anyone knows how to do this?
>> 
>> Using hyperref, I can nicely open pdf files to windows of a particular size
>> by having prepared the target pdf file by modifying the Open Options of
>> Document Properties and then using \href to link to that modified pdf file.
>> What I would _really_ like to do is use \href (or equivalent) to open an
>> *html* file to a window of a particular size. Of course, I can imbed a
>> changeScreenSize javascript inside the target file and that works fine with
>> \href... 
> 
> By opening the HTML file, do you mean
> a. open it in (full) Acrobat, using Web Capture;
> or
> b. launch an external browser and show it there ?

yes...Of course I can open an html file, but it remembers the browser window
size and does that. I want to control the size, as I would with a javascript
if calling from a web page.

> 
> Do you wish to, say, open a small window with just one picture,
> or a short form, having none of the navigation and menus of a full window?
> The sort of stuff that happens on some web-sites?
> 
>> Both of these methods require me to prepare the target file, pdf or html,
>> beforehand. I'd like to issue a command to open the html file to a specific
>> size from within the LaTeX - like I could if I was defining the link within
>> an html file: there, I would initiate a javascript action attached to the
>> hyperlink to open to a particular window size and to particular attributes
>> (scroll, etc). 
> 
> With full Acrobat v5.05 (the latest) you can attach javascripts to any object.
> So if you can use this to construct a PDF that does what you want...
> 
>> But, is there any way to do the equivalent thing from a command originating
>> in LaTeX through pdf? I think that javascripts can be run within pdfs, but
>> it doesn't seem that this fits here...
> 
> ...then it will be an extra step to work out how to generate such a PDF from
> LaTeX source. Donald Story  (http://www.math.uakron.edu/ )  is the expert
> in this kind of thing.

What I would like, but suspect I can't have, is the means to pass to the pdf
enough javascript code to launch the web page of my dreams.


> 
> If others have similar experience, I'd like to hear about it too.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Ross Moore
> 
> 
>> thanks!
>> 
>> Raymond Brock  *  Professor of Physics
>> 
>> Department of Physics and Astronomy
>> Michigan State University  *  East Lansing, MI  48824
>> 
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