On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:55:18AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 23:31 +1100, Trent W. Buck a écrit : > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:18:57PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > When viewing a PDF with a hyperlink around normal (black, not blue) > > > > text, historically xpdf has drawn a blue border around the link and > > > > evince has not. > > > > > > > > I find these borders distracting and irritating, but can find no way > > > > to disable them. Please add an option to disable these borders. > > > > > > I see what you mean [...] I can't reproduce the issue. Do you have > > > a sample document that shows this behavior? > > > > Please find attached an example PDF, generated by html2ps and ps2pdf. > > It would be good to ask someone who knows the PDF format, but it looks > to me that these borders are requested in the document: > <</Type/Annot > /Rect [196.623 647.15 220.623 659.25] > /Border [0 0 1] > /A<</URI(http://wikipedia.org/wiki/1960) > /S/URI>>
Hmm. AFAICT html2ps was version 1.0b5-5 both before and after I noticed this change, so perhaps evince was (until recently) ignoring this request. That is, evince not drawing the borders was a bug and the bug was recently fixed. This is just a guess; I'm not at all familiar with PostScript or PDF.
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