(off-topic) hovering over links in Acrobat Reader
Dear list, I have the following source: \setupbodyfont[dejavu, sans, 24pt] \setupinteraction[state=start, style=, color=, contrastcolor=, display=new] \enabledirectives[references.border=darkgreen] \def\myurl#1% {{\tt\goto{\hyphenatedurl{#1}}[url(#1)]}} \protect\def\myhref#1#2% {\goto{\hyphenatedurl{#1}}[url(#2)]} \starttext \startTEXpage[pagestate=start, offset=1em, align=center] {\bfa Hovering Over Links} \blank[1st] \attachment[method=hidden, file={signed-a.pdf}] \goto{An embedded PDF document}[signed-a::] \blank[.5st] \myurl{https://contextgarden.net} \blank[.5st] \myhref{A link to the Garden}{https://contextgarden.net} \stopTEXpage \stoptext I also attach my output, since the first link is a link to an embedded document and not the expected link to an external document (I modified ConTeXt to get that kind of link). The issue I’m experiencing with Acrobat Reader DC on Windows (automatically updated to latest version) is that when hovering over links, I get different results. The three links are (in order from top to bottom): 1. A link to the embedded document. 2. An external link with its address as text. 3. Another external link without its address as text. Some days (as today [sorry, I don’t have access to Windows now]), hovering over the three links displayed the word "link" (even with Acrobat set to Spanish). Other days, hovering over the first link displays nothing and hovering over the two other links show their actual destination address. This behavior seems so random to me that I‘m not sure I’m not missing anything. Would you be so kind to test the attached document (and the one you may generate from the sample source) hovering over the link frames in Acrobat (ideally DC updated to latest)? At least, I would like to be sure what is going on here. Hovering over links is basic precaution before clicking them. To explain that to others, I’d rather know how Acrobat (Reader) behaves in these cases. Sorry the off-topic issue and many thanks for your help in advance, Pablo
Am 19.06.24 um 19:16 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
Would you be so kind to test the attached document (and the one you may generate from the sample source) hovering over the link frames in Acrobat (ideally DC updated to latest)?
At least, I would like to be sure what is going on here.
Hovering over links is basic precaution before clicking them.
To explain that to others, I’d rather know how Acrobat (Reader) behaves in these cases.
Build 24.2.20857.0 on MacOS 10.15.7: 1: no hover 2: https://contextgarden.net 3: https://contextgarden.net Trying to compile your code, I get: """ ... fonts > otf loading > math data wiped from 'DejaVu Sans' Fatal error: catcode push/pop mismatch. Fix this! (restore level: 0) system > don't use \end to finish a document system > invalid \starttext ... \stoptext structure close source > level 1, order 3, name './hover1.tex' (\end occurred when \ifcase on line 6 was incomplete) ... """ Hraban
Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 19.06.2024 um 21:55:
Am 19.06.24 um 19:16 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
Would you be so kind to test the attached document (and the one you may generate from the sample source) hovering over the link frames in Acrobat (ideally DC updated to latest)?
At least, I would like to be sure what is going on here.
Hovering over links is basic precaution before clicking them.
To explain that to others, I’d rather know how Acrobat (Reader) behaves in these cases.
Build 24.2.20857.0 on MacOS 10.15.7: 1: no hover 2: https://contextgarden.net 3: https://contextgarden.net
Trying to compile your code, I get:
""" ... fonts > otf loading > math data wiped from 'DejaVu Sans'
Fatal error: catcode push/pop mismatch. Fix this! (restore level: 0)
system > don't use \end to finish a document system > invalid \starttext ... \stoptext structure close source > level 1, order 3, name './hover1.tex' (\end occurred when \ifcase on line 6 was incomplete) ... """
This should be \protected\def \protect\def\myhref#1#2% {...} Wolfgang
Am 19.06.24 um 22:10 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 19.06.2024 um 21:55:
Am 19.06.24 um 19:16 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context: Trying to compile your code, I get:
This should be \protected\def
\protect\def\myhref#1#2% {...}
Oops, didn’t find that. Thank you! Now I get the same behavior as with the original PDF, BTW also in Apple Preview. Hraban
On 6/19/24 22:10, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
[...] This should be \protected\def
\protect\def\myhref#1#2% {...}
Sorry for the mess, Wolfang and Hraban. I wasn’t aware of the mistake, since the PDF document was neither deleted not showing the colorful error word. I created the document with other commands and I rewrote them (introducing this error). Pablo
On 6/19/24 21:55, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 19.06.24 um 19:16 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
Would you be so kind to test the attached document (and the one you may generate from the sample source) hovering over the link frames in Acrobat (ideally DC updated to latest)?
At least, I would like to be sure what is going on here.
Hovering over links is basic precaution before clicking them.
To explain that to others, I’d rather know how Acrobat (Reader) behaves in these cases.
Build 24.2.20857.0 on MacOS 10.15.7: 1: no hover 2: https://contextgarden.net 3: https://contextgarden.net
Many thanks for your help, Hraban. Thanks to your confirmation, I investigated the issue further (since there had to be something different with my documents). \setuptagging[state=start] is the culprit. "link" is the word displayed when links are hovered over. Many thanks for your help again, Pablo
Am Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:33:56 +0200 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
\setuptagging[state=start] is the culprit. "link" is the word displayed when links are hovered over.
well it would imho be better not to use that at all. Sorry but what context is doing here is cheating. It claims to add a structure (and probably manage to pass automated tests) but all StructElem with the exception of links are role mapped to NonStruct and so are non functional. Links miss the OBJR reference. Annotations only all have as /Content a generic text (link) (which creates your hover effect). When I let Adobe+NVDA read a PDF tagged with LaTeX it recognize and announces structures: heading level 2 A section text table with 2 rows and 2 columns row 1 column 1 header A column 2 header B row 2 header A column 1 data A header B column 2 data B out of table link https://www.example.com I can navigate from one heading to the next and inside tables (and when I hover a link the pop up is correct as we are setting the right Contents value.) If you do the same with a document tagged with context you only get a large blob of text A section textHeader AHeader B data Adata B https://contextgarden.net and no navigation at all. All the tagging in the file is useless, it even actually harms because it makes user believe they get an accessible PDF. Tagged, accessible PDF has a lot of shortcomings, especially when it comes to complex documents and math, but for standard documents it can do much better then what context is making out of it. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
On 6/20/2024 5:33 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
On 6/19/24 21:55, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 19.06.24 um 19:16 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
Would you be so kind to test the attached document (and the one you may generate from the sample source) hovering over the link frames in Acrobat (ideally DC updated to latest)?
At least, I would like to be sure what is going on here.
Hovering over links is basic precaution before clicking them.
To explain that to others, I’d rather know how Acrobat (Reader) behaves in these cases.
Build 24.2.20857.0 on MacOS 10.15.7: 1: no hover 2: https://contextgarden.net 3: https://contextgarden.net
Many thanks for your help, Hraban.
Thanks to your confirmation, I investigated the issue further (since there had to be something different with my documents).
\setuptagging[state=start] is the culprit. "link" is the word displayed when links are hovered over. It's not that hard to get something less generic displayed but the question is what and in what detail. A lot of this stuff is not consistent over viewers and it being part of the user interface might also change over time (some viewers also interpret the page stream for urls).
Anyway, a next upload will have this: % \disabledirectives[backends.references.descriptions] % just link % \enabledirectives [backends.references.descriptions] % some detail (some todo) (default) % \enabledirectives [backends.references.descriptions=reference] % a bit less so that you can experiment a bit with it. We might at some point provide optional descriptions per link but the quesiton is how to cleanly interface this (easier if you use \define... instead of your own macros for urls). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 6/21/24 18:31, Hans Hagen wrote:
[...] so that you can experiment a bit with it. We might at some point provide optional descriptions per link but the quesiton is how to cleanly interface this (easier if you use \define... instead of your own macros for urls).
Many thanks for the new options, Hans. Sorry, but I don’t know how I would have to use \define here instead of my macros. BTW, I created them long time ago to avoid having two commands (one to contain the address and another to typeset it), such as in (copied from the wiki): \useURL[anotherurl] [http://xkcd.com/224/] \from[aurl] % typesets the URL Many thanks for your help, Pablo
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