From tobias.verbeke at telenet.be  Sun May  4 18:13:04 2008
From: tobias.verbeke at telenet.be (Tobias Verbeke)
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 18:13:04 +0200
Subject: [Rd] A patch for extending pdf device to embed popup text and
 web	links
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Dear Tadashi,

Thank you very much for sharing your work.

> I am sending a patch for R-2.7.0 for extending pdf device to embed pop
> up text and
> web links. The patch is available at
> http://www.okada.jp.org/RWiki/?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=R-2.7.0.patch&refer=pdf%20device%20patch
> You can see what the patch can do through a sample output, which is available at
> http://www.okada.jp.org/RWiki/?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=sample2.pdf&refer=pdf%20device%20patch
> An script is at
> http://www.okada.jp.org/RWiki/?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=sample2.r&refer=pdf%20device%20patch
> 
> Ei-ji Nakama kindly build Windows binary, which can be obtained from
> http://prs.ism.ac.jp/~nakama/tadakadosan/cran/
> An installer, R-2.7.0pat-win32.exe, will install programs in
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.0pat
> so that you can use both of original and patched version simultaneously.

I think it would be most useful if you could bundle your patched version
of the pdf device in a separate device package, similar to the
RSVGTipsDevice.

What do you think ?

Kind regards,
Tobias



[Rd] A patch for extending pdf device to embed popup text and web links
Tobias Verbeke