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Our PDFs are used for what PDFs were originally designed for, to transfer
formatted documents to print vendors. We do provide PDFs if someone wants them,
but we do not carry over Word links to them, they just have PDF bookmarks. The
only reason we would insert a cross-reference as a hyperlink in the Word DOC
would be so that we can click it to verify it is correctly tied to its reference
and there will not be an error in the printed book or PDF. If I insert
something into a paragraph with a style tag of "Body" or "Heading," I expect it
to look exactly as the formatting for that style dictates unless I specifically
format it otherwise.
If you want hyperlinks that look like hyperlinks, why insert cross-references in
the first place? Just insert hyperlinks.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Robert Lauriston" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Hyperlinks are useless in print, but people who print PDFs and Web
pages think nothing of seeing them blue and underlined.
hyperlinks that aren't blue and underlined are useless in PDFs.
I can't see any rational argument for cross-reference hyperlinks not
being formatted like other hyperlinks. Logically, they'd pick up the
Hyperlink character style, and if you didn't want them blue and
underlined, you'd remove those attributes from that style.
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