seeking method for both hyperlink and text search in pdf image

[john_oshea at wordbank.com]

Greg Titus wrote:

> The reason for the omission is not that peculiar: Apple provides a lot 
> of support for generating PDFs for printing and for saving to a file, 
> but that support does not include things like hyperlinks. Thus, 
> exporting links into PDF requires Graffle to manually generate a bunch 
> of the required PDF instead of depending upon the operating system.  You 
> will all be happy to know that this will happen in OmniGraffle 4, so 
> Michael Singer's original request for hyperlinking and text 
> searchability will be possible without any extra software soon.

<ears perk up>

And what are the chances of an Omni framework containing said 
PDF-generating code being released separately at some point (either as 
source code, or under licence)? While we don't have a massive need for 
this, I'm imagining it would be much preferable to playing with Adobe's 
SDK  ;-)


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