While I was working on making SORD Plus, I tried to do what I love to do with all my WOTC 4e books - create my own hyperlinks in the PDF document. That way I can bounce around from one section to another with ease and not rely on just the standard bookmarks. For example, I have links from the armor table which bounce over to the weapons table and back. Individual armor types are referenced from the table for quick access to their descriptions.
Spells are another huge section that begs for hyperlinks.
In terms of finding info quickly, the ability make these links in Acrobat (if you have it) is invaluable.
Unfortunately, the Beta document does not allow this. That is HIGHLY frustrating to a guy who wants to *mark up* his book to facilitate his ability to play.
Now, if WOTC allows its books to have this capability, what reason exists to not have it available in Pathfinder?
The disallowing of hyperlink creation is a huge detriment to the usefulness of the book and I would be more than happy to demonstrate to Erik (or anyone else) how much value can be added by its restoration.
Regards,
Steve Muchow
Myth Merchant Press
steve@mythmerchant.com
Steven, I just bought your Pathfinder SORD. It rocks my boat, but for some reason it doesn't work under my PDF viewer of choice - FoxIt. I have to run it under the pure evil that Acrobat Reader is nowadays.
And yes, hyperlinks would be cool too !
I built it under v1.7 PDF format (Acrobat 9), so that is probably the disconnect. I will re-release it under v1.5 (Acrobat 6) and that should allow FoxIt to run it.
Steven, I just bought your Pathfinder SORD. It rocks my boat, but for some reason it doesn't work under my PDF viewer of choice - FoxIt. I have to run it under the pure evil that Acrobat Reader is nowadays.
And yes, hyperlinks would be cool too !
Send me an email to steve@mythmerchant.com regarding you SORD issue and I'll see what is wrong, I just ran it under Foxit 3.0 with no problem.
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I totally just heard Elan sing "dun dun DUN!!!"
Steve was very helpful. The security tools we have access too aren't very finely manipulable, so we can't provide the ability to add hyperlinks without also giving you the ability to easily remove our watermarks. So, when Steve suggested that it was possible with Wizards PDFs, it had me interested. It turns out that the Wizards PDFs available for sale do not allow it either; the PDF Steve was using had been manipulated. It would be inappropriate for me to explain that further, but I do want to say that Steve's circumstance is unique, doesn't involve anything illegal, and doesn't help us offer that additional functionality.