While I was using a friend's PDFs at a game session, I thought it might be an interesting idea to have hyperlinks function between PDFs. The ones that are within the document are supremely useful (and as a GM that didn't have my corebook on hand, it made finding rule references rather quick to look up) but I think clicking on "Hardness" in the bestiary and it taking you to the Hardness rule section in the Corebook would be incredibly helpful.
I'm not entirely certain that there is a way to do this without compromising the security of the files, or if there's a quick-and-easy way for me to do it myself. I just thought I'd throw the idea by the folks here as a suggestion.
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While I was using a friend's PDFs at a game session, I thought it might be an interesting idea to have hyperlinks function between PDFs. The ones that are within the document are supremely useful (and as a GM that didn't have my corebook on hand, it made finding rule references rather quick to look up) but I think clicking on "Hardness" in the bestiary and it taking you to the Hardness rule section in the Corebook would be incredibly helpful.
I'm not entirely certain that there is a way to do this without compromising the security of the files, or if there's a quick-and-easy way for me to do it myself. I just thought I'd throw the idea by the folks here as a suggestion.
The PDF format does have a provision for inter-document hyperlinks, but it's so brain-dead and fragile as to be virtually unusable. Essentially, the exact path to the other document has to be known at the time the PDF is created or else the links don't work. The user can never rename or move the files or folders involved. And I'm not all that confident that even known paths outside of the originating document's folder even *work* across all operating systems. It's not even smart enough to prompt you to locate the file it's looking for; it just silently fails.
Oh well. Thanks for letting me know. I'd suggest a self contained program, but i think that'd be significantly more bother for both the players and the developers than either of them are looking for, especially if you wanted to use the books on a smart-device.
Thanks again.