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InternetLink is an extension (plug-in) for Adobe Acrobat Exchange 2.0.
InternetLink allows you to embed URLs for Gopher, ftp, and HTTP, and
Netnews items inside Acrobat PDF documents. When you click on such a
link, Acrobat Exchange calls a helper application to get the item
specified by the URL. The InternetLink plug-in currently calls
TurboGopher for Gopher URLs, Anarchie for FTP URLs, NewsWatcher for
Netnews URLs, and MacWeb for http/html URLs. InternetLink works with
Acrobat Exchange to make PDF documents act as Internet-aware hypertext
documents which can be published from a variety of servers (such as
gopher, ftp, etc...)
Why use Acrobat Exchange and InternetLink?
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Adobe Acrobat lets you create fully formatted documents using your
favorite Mac or Windows word processing or desktop publishing
application (or any program that can generate postscript documents)
and save these as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. PDF files
may be viewed on Macs, PC, or UNIX boxes with all the original
formatting, fonts, and graphics intact using the free Acrobat
Reader. Creating a PDF file is as easy as printing the document
to the Adobe PDF printer driver.
Using Acrobat Exchange and the InternetLink plug-in, you can also
set links (hot-spots) to any Internet resources in your PDF file.
This means that any text or graphic can be a hypertext link
containing a URL. Clicking on such a link in Exchange (enabled
with the plug-in) has Acrobat call an appropriate helper
application (TurboGopher, MacWeb, Anarchie, NewsWatcher...)
to fetch and/or render the appropriate item.
Creating links is straightforward: select the Link Tool in Acrobat
Exchange, and make the link an InternetLink from the popup menu.
Drag a rectangle over any area of the document to define the "hot"
area. Paste or type in an IETF-standard URL.
A free viewer is available for all platforms, and PDF is now a
base gopher type (type 'P'). This means that savvy gopher clients
automatically recognize PDF documents and call a PDF viewer to
render the document. PDF's strength is that you can use
off-the-shelf software to create heavily formatted documents and
anyone with a PDF viewer (Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange)
can view the document. When you create the PDF document you can
ask for both text and graphics data compression which helps
minimize the size of the PDF documents and speed their retrieval.
Where heavily formatted documents are required, PDF may be an
alternative to marking up documents in HTML.
You can retrieve the InternetLink plug-in by anonymous ftp or
gopher from boombox.micro.umn.edu (it is part of the TurboGopher
2.0b1 distribution).
<URL:GOPHER://boombox.micro.umn.edu:70/11/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher>
<URL:FTP://boombox.micro.umn.edu//pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher/>
Drop InternetLink into your Adobe Acrobat 2.0 Plug-Ins folder.
The InternetLink tool will appear along with the other Link Tools.
Comments and Bugs to: <gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
- The Internet Gopher Mongoose Team
University of Minnesota.
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