On 2018-11-09 9:37 a.m., Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 11/9/18 3:23 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
>> hi gare
>>
>>> New to Scribus scripting and because of the version of Scribus and
>>> Ghostscript I'm running, exporting to PDFs is a pain. I have to save
>>> the .sla file then fire up my laptop, which is running an older
>>> version of Debian, to create the PDF. Debian/Buster has a problem
>>> with importing postscript & PDFs and with creating PDFs.
>>>
>>> However the far larger problem I'm currently having is that I have a
>>> hundred-page document with hundreds of e-mail addresses and a lot of
>>> web addresses that I'd like to automatically locate and create
>>> external links for. Doing this by hand will take forever.
>>>
>>> After manually creating a few then looking at the .sla file, I note
>>> that the PDF links are, as expected, not really associated with the
>>> text. Instead, as the create sequence implies, they are associated
>>> with a bit of real estate on the page that (hopefully) aligns with
>>> some underlying text or image.
>>>
>>> This suggests that a script would need to:
>>>
>>> 1) seek e-mail addresses (identified by text that looks like an
>>> e-mail address),
>>>
>>> 2) identify the position and size of the address on the page,
>>>
>>> 3) create a PDF link element with that address.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen / used such a script or something similar that I can
>>> work from?
>> i don't think there is a way to do this through scripting.
>> and automatically adding the pdf link frames from c++ is imo not
>> a good idea at all.
>>
>> one simple solution, is to rely on the pdf reader to make links
>> clickable. many readers do it.
>>
>> the other way -- a more long term one -- is to come up with a good way
>> to do that through "formatting".
>> does anybody have an idea how to edit and display links in scribus.
>> if yes, please make a proposal in this list or add a ticket to the bug
>> tracker (https://bugs.scribus.net).
>> it's probably not trivial to find the optimal way to do that, but me
>> might have a few very clever heads around here...
>> just keep in mind that scribus is mainly a tool for creating pdf that
>> will be professional printed, so the solution will probably have to
>> ensure that printed document do look good! (probably, you will not have
>> underlined urls in a printed document... but you might want them
>> highlighted in a pdf for online reading...)
>>
>> sorry, that i cannot give you *the* solution... maybe, somebody
>> will come up with a better idea than the ones of mine...
> One curious thing is that Adobe Reader used to recognize addresses and turn
> them into links (once to set this in Preferences), but it doesn't anymore.
> Perhaps this is related to the fact that Adobe hasn't updated AR since
> 9.5.5.1... I know it used to work.
>
> I also see that when I hover over an email address, a tooltip pops up with
> mailto: and the address, but that doesn't do anything either.
>
> Greg
>
I checked with Acrobat Reader XI running in wine and it did identify web
and e-mail addresses and made them clickable. Okular, on the other hand,
didn't. Neither did the Evince Document Viewer.
