At 04:26 PM 98/11/27 , Timothy Murphy wrote: >I find that a little hard to follow. >The only PDF documents I've seen with useful hypertext >are pdflatex ones presumably generated using hyperref. Or, in material predating hyperref, by using \special{...} directly, as in http://www.YandY.com/download/pdf_from.pdf This is a situation where DVI viewer supported hyper-text links were automatically translated to pdfmark for Distiller. >Eg I was just looking at an enormous on-line Java manual by Eckel, >which is said to be very good, and found the complete lack of links >between table-of-contents (and index) and contents >very frustrating. How was it prepared? Using TeX? You can't really blame PDF for the author's lack of sophistication in using the tool properly.