From: bruce@tomo.co.nz To: therion@speleo.sk Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:14:38 +1300 Subject: Re: [Therion] hyperlink point
i was considering linking to reports, publications, photoes, videos from the maps. this would link these other resources to the map, allowing the user to jump from the map to a report or a video and so on. My thought as well.
I had also had thought about this. In my survey-databases I use url to reports of the trips we made to make the surveys, or reports of the digging and further exploration.
i would rather have iconic refs in the pdf (the "usual" file, picture, video icons). These would be OK, or even quite nice, when viewed electronically, but redundant or even untidy once the map is printed.
Isn't it possible to create automatically both maps: the one with the url-links, the other without. In case there are no links you have twice the same.
links could be turned off (to prepare maps for publications, with a symbol-hide command. They could, but it means you have to create two maps, one for electronic viewing and one for paper viewing. Seems like needless duplication of authors effort and maintaining separate versions of what are otherwise identical files.
Bruce
Guido