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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...)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- <URL:GOPHER://boombox.micro.umn.edu:70/11/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher>
- <URL:FTP://boombox.micro.umn.edu//pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher/>
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- Drop InternetLink into your Adobe Acrobat 2.0 Plug-Ins folder.
- The InternetLink tool will appear along with the other Link Tools.
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- Comments and Bugs to: <gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
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- - The Internet Gopher Mongoose Team
- University of Minnesota.
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