Hyperlinks
Print2Flash documents can contain hyperlinks in them similarly to web pages.
A hyperlink can be clicked by users in order to open the location to which the link points. Hyperlinks in converted Print2Flash documents are marked by a
special hand mouse cursor when mouse hovers over them in documents. Hyperlinks are
clickable only in Drag mode.
Currently there are two methods for hyperlink support. They are detailed
below.
Extracting hyperlinks directly from source documents
This method retrieves hyperlinks from source documents that can contain
hyperlinks in them and creates corresponding hyperlinks in output Flash
documents. Currently the following document types are supported by this method:
If you do not want your Flash documents to contain links from source
documents, you may turn this feature on or off using respective checkboxes in
the Hyperlinks tab of Document
Options window.
Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents
To convert these types of documents with hyperlinks
support, you may use these conversion methods:
- By opening
Print2Flash Application and using Convert button.
- By opening Print2Flash
Application and drag-and-dropping the document on the application window.
- By opening them in respectively Microsoft Word or Microsoft
PowerPoint and then either choosing "Print2Flash/Convert to Flash (.swf)" option
from the application menu or clicking
"Convert to Flash using Print2Flash (.swf)" button on the custom
Print2Flash Toolbar.
At programmatic conversion hyperlink extraction is controlled with
ExtractLinks
property of Profile object or with ExtractLinks parameter of
Enhanced Batch Processing. Also, special application conversion method
must be activated in order to enable hyperlink extraction for Microsoft Word and
PowerPoint documents.
PDF documents
To convert PDF documents with hyperlinks
support, you may use these conversion methods:
- By opening
Print2Flash Application and using Convert button.
- By opening Print2Flash
Application and drag-and-dropping the document on the application window.
At programmatic conversion hyperlink extraction is controlled with
ExtractLinks
property of Profile object or with ExtractLinks parameter of
Enhanced Batch Processing. For PDF
documents you should use ACROBAT value
for this property.
Bookmarks
Source documents may contain bookmarks in them. Bookmark is a hyperlink that
links to another location in the same document. When a bookmark is clicked, the
document view is shifted to display the location the bookmarks points to. For
example, when you click a table of contents heading in a Word document, it takes
you to the chapter this heading corresponds to. Print2Flash supports bookmarks
and retains them in the output Flash documents.
You may also navigate to a bookmark using
Print2Flash Document API. It exposes
goToLinkTarget function
which allows you to navigate to the bookmark specified by the url
parameter. The bookmark should be specified in this format: anchor:<bmname>.
Here bmname is the name of the bookmark. For example, if you want to
navigate to the bookmark named chapter1, you need to use this parameter
value: anchor:chapter1.
Parsing hyperlinks from the document text
For other types of documents you may make Print2Flash parse hyperlinks out of
document text. If a document contains a valid text string that looks like a URL,
Print2Flash can convert this string to a hyperlink which is clickable and opens
the specified URL when clicked. The following text patterns are recognized:
- words starting from "http://", "https://";
- words starting with "www." (http protocol is implied for such links).
You may control the parsing of such links using "Extract parsable hyperlinks"
option in the Hyperlinks tab of Document
Options window. At
programmatic conversion it is controlled with
ParseLinks property of Profile object or with ParseLinks parameter of
Enhanced Batch Processing.
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