Date: 2004-02-12 15:16:00

## Hypertext marks in LATEX: a manual for hyperref

Sebastian Rahtz
Heiko Oberdiek
February 2004

### Contents

1 Introduction
2 Implicit behavior
3 Package options
3.1 General options
3.2 Configuration options
3.3 Backend drivers
3.4 Extension options
3.5 PDF-specific display options
3.6 PDF display and information options
3.7 Big alphabetical list
4 Additional user macros
4.1 Replacement macros
5 Acrobat-specific behavior
6 PDF and HTML forms
6.1 Forms environment parameters
6.2 Forms optional parameters
7 Defining a new driver
8 Special support for other packages
9 History and acknowledgments
10 GNU Free Documentation License
10.1 Applicability and definitions
10.2 Verbatim copying
10.3 Copying in quantity
10.4 Modifications
10.5 Combining documents
10.6 Collections of documents
10.7 Aggregation with independent works
10.8 Translation
10.9 Termination
10.10 Future revisions of this license

### 1 Introduction

The package derives from, and builds on, the work of the HyperTEX project, described at http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex/. It extends the functionality of all the LATEX cross-referencing commands (including the table of contents, bibliographies etc) to produce \special commands which a driver can turn into hypertext links; it also provides new commands to allow the user to write ad hoc hypertext links, including those to external documents and URLs.

This manual provides a brief overview of the hyperref package. For more details, you should read the additional documentation distributed with the package, as well as the complete documentation by processing hyperref.dtx. You should also read the chapter on hyperref in The LATEX Web Companion, where you will find additional examples.

The HyperTEX specification1 says that conformant viewers/translators must recognize the following set of \special constructs:

href:
  html:<a href = "href_string">
name:
  html:<a name = "name_string">
end:
  html:</a>
image:
  html:<img src = "href_string">
base_name:
  html:<base href = "href_string">

The href, name and end commands are used to do the basic hypertext operations of establishing links between sections of documents. The image command is intended (as with current HTML viewers) to place an image of arbitrary graphical format on the page in the current location. The base_name command is be used to communicate to the DVI viewer the full (URL) location of the current document so that files specified by relative URL’s may be retrieved correctly.

The href and name commands must be paired with an end command later in the TEX file—the TEX commands between the two ends of a pair form an anchor in the document. In the case of an href command, the anchor is to be highlighted in the DVI viewer, and when clicked on will cause the scene to shift to the destination specified by href_string. The anchor associated with a name command represents a possible location to which other hypertext links may refer, either as local references (of the form href="#name_string" with the name_string identical to the one in the name command) or as part of a URL (of the form URL#name_string). Here href_string is a valid URL or local identifier, while name_string could be any string at all: the only caveat is that ‘"’ characters should be escaped with a backslash (\), and if it looks like a URL name it may cause problems.

However, the drivers intended to produce only PDF use literal PostScript or PDF \special commands. The commands are defined in configuration files for different drivers, selected by package options; at present, the following drivers are supported:

hypertex
  DVI processors conforming to the HyperTEX guidelines (i.e. xdvi, dvips (with the -z option), OzTeX, and Textures)
dvips
  produces \special commands tailored for dvips
dvipsone
  produces \special commands tailored for dvipsone
ps2pdf
  a special case of output suitable for processing by earlier versions of Ghostscript’s PDF writer; this is basically the same as that for dvips, but a few variations remained before version 5.21
tex4ht
  produces \special commands for use with TEX4ht
pdftex
  pdfTEX, Hàn Thê' Thành’s TEX variant that writes PDF directly
dvipdf
  produces \special commands for the DVI to PDF driver dvipdf
dvipdfm
  produces \special commands for Mark Wicks’ DVI to PDF driver dvipdfm
dviwindo
  produces \special commands that Y&Y’s Windows previewer interprets as hypertext jumps within the previewer
vtex
  produces \special commands that MicroPress’ HTML and PDF-producing TEX variants interpret as hypertext jumps within the previewer
textures
  produces \special commands that Textures interprets as hypertext jumps within the previewer

Output from dvips or dvipsone must be processed using Acrobat Distiller to obtain a PDF file.2 The result is generally preferable to that produced by using the hypertex driver, and then processing with dvips -z, but the DVI file is not portable. The main advantage of using the HyperTEX \special commands is that you can also use the document in hypertext DVI viewers, such as xdvi.

### 2 Implicit behavior

This package can be used with more or less any normal LATEX document by specifying in the document preamble

\usepackage{hyperref}

Make sure it comes last of your loaded packages, to give it a fighting chance of not being over-written, since its job is to redefine many LATEX commands. Hopefully you will find that all cross-references work correctly as hypertext. For example, \section commands will produce a bookmark and a link, whereas \section* commands will only show links when paired with a corresponding \addcontentsline command.

In addition, the hyperindex option (see below) attempts to make items in the index by hyperlinked back to the text, and the option backref inserts extra ‘back’ links into the bibliography for each entry. Other options control the appearance of links, and give extra control over PDF output. For example, colorlinks, as its name well implies, colors the links instead of using boxes; this is the option used in this document.

### 3 Package options

All user-configurable aspects of hyperref are set using a single ‘key=value’ scheme (using the keyval package) with the key Hyp. The options can be set either in the optional argument to the \usepackage command, or using the \hypersetup macro. When the package is loaded, a file hyperref.cfg is read if it can be found, and this is a convenient place to set options on a site-wide basis.

As an example, the behavior of a particular file could be controlled by:

- a site-wide hyperref.cfg setting up the look of links, adding backreferencing, and setting a PDF display default:

  \hypersetup{backref, pdfpagemode=FullScreen, colorlinks=true}

- A global option in the file, which is passed down to hyperref:

  \documentclass[dvips]{article}

- File-specific options in the \usepackage commands, which override the ones set in hyperref.cfg:

  \usepackage[pdftitle={A Perfect Day},colorlinks=false]{hyperref}

Some options can be given at any time, but many are restricted: before \begin{document}, only in \usepackage[...]{hyperref}, before first use, etc.

In the key descriptions that follow, many options do not need a value, as they default to the value true if used. These are the ones classed as ‘boolean’. The values true and false can always be specified, however.

#### 3.1 General options

Firstly, the options to specify general behavior and page size.

draft | boolean | false | all hypertext options are turned off
final | boolean | true | all hypertext options are turned on
debug | boolean | false | extra diagnostic messages are printed in
|  |  | the log file
verbose | boolean | false | same as debug
implicit | boolean | true | redefines LATEX internals
hypertexnames | boolean | true | use guessable names for links
naturalnames | boolean | false | use LATEX-computed names for links
a4paper | boolean | true | sets paper size to 210mm × 297mm
a5paper | boolean | false | sets paper size to 148mm × 210mm
b5paper | boolean | false | sets paper size to 176mm × 250mm
letterpaper | boolean | false | sets paper size to 8.5in × 11in
legalpaper | boolean | false | sets paper size to 8.5in × 14in
executivepaper | boolean | false | sets paper size to 7.25in × 10.5in
setpagesize | boolean | true | sets page size by special driver commands

#### 3.2 Configuration options

raiselinks | boolean | true | In the hypertex driver, the height of links is normally calculcated by the driver as simply the base line of contained text; this options forces \special commands to reflect the real height of the link (which could contain a graphic)
breaklinks | boolean | false | Allows link text to break across lines; since this cannot be accommodated in PDF, it is only set true by default if the pdftex driver is used. This makes links on multiple lines into different PDF links to the same target.
pageanchor | boolean | true | Determines whether every page is given an implicit anchor at the top left corner. If this is turned off, \tableofcontents will not contain hyperlinks.
plainpages | boolean | true | Forces page anchors to be named by the arabic form of the page number, rather than the formatted form.
nesting | boolean | false | Allows links to be nested; no drivers currently support this.

#### 3.3 Backend drivers

If no driver is specified, the package defaults to loading the hypertex driver. All of these are boolean options.

dvips | Sets up hyperref for use with the dvips driver.
dvipsone | Sets up hyperref for use with the dvipsone driver.
dviwindo | Sets up hyperref for use with the dviwindo Windows previewer.
hypertex | Sets up hyperref for use with the HyperTEX-compliant drivers.
latex2html | Redefines a few macros for compatibility with latex2html.
nativepdf | an alias for dvips
pdfmark | an alias for dvips
pdftex | Sets up hyperref for use with the pdftex program.
ps2pdf | Redefines a few macros for compatibility with Ghostscript’s PDF writer, otherwise identical to dvips.
tex4ht | for use with TEX4ht
textures | for use with Textures
vtex | For use with MicroPress’ VTeX; the PDF and HTML backends are detected automatically.
vtexpdfmark | for use with VTeX’s PostScript backend.

If you use dviwindo, you may need to redefine the macro \wwwbrowser (the default is C:\netscape\netscape) to tell dviwindo what program to launch. Thus, users of Internet Explorer might add something like this to hyperref.cfg:

\renewcommand{wwwbrowser}{C:\string\Program\space Files\string\Plus!\string\Microsoft\space Internet\string\iexplore.exe}

#### 3.4 Extension options

extension | text |  | Set the file extension (e.g. dvi) which will be appended to file links created if you use the xr package.
hyperfigures | boolean |  |
backref | boolean | false | Adds ‘backlink’ text to the end of each item in the bibliography, as a list of section numbers. This can only work properly if there is a blank line after each \bibitem.
pagebackref | boolean | false | Adds ‘backlink’ text to the end of each item in the bibliography, as a list of page numbers.
hyperindex | boolean | false | Makes the text of index entries into hyperlinks. Easily broken . . .
encap |  |  | Sets encap character for hyperindex
linktocpage | boolean | false | make page number, not text, be link on TOC, LOF and LOT
breaklinks | boolean | false | allow links to break over lines by making links over multiple lines into PDF links to the same target
colorlinks | boolean | false | Colors the text of links and anchors. The colors chosen depend on the the type of link. At present the only types of link distinguished are citations, page references, URLs, local file references, and other links.
linkcolor | color | red | Color for normal internal links.
anchorcolor | color | black | Color for anchor text.
citecolor | color | green | Color for bibliographical citations in text.
filecolor | color | magenta | Color for URLs which open local files.
menucolor | color | red | Color for Acrobat menu items.
pagecolor | color | red | Color for links to other pages.
urlcolor | color | cyan | Color for linked URLs.
frenchlinks | boolean | false | use small caps instead of color for links

Note that all color names must be defined before use, following the normal system of the standard LATEX color package.

#### 3.5 PDF-specific display options

bookmarks | boolean | false | A set of Acrobat bookmarks are written, in a manner similar to the table of contents, requiring two passes of LATEX. Some postprocessing of the bookmark file (file extension .out) may be needed to translate LATEX codes, since bookmarks must be written in PDFEncoding. To aid this process, the .out file is not rewritten by LATEX if it is edited to contain a line \let\WriteBookmarks\relax
bookmarksopen | boolean | false | If Acrobat bookmarks are requested, show them with all the subtrees expanded.
bookmarksopenlevel | parameter |  | level (\maxdimen) to which bookmarks are open
bookmarksnumbered | boolean | false | If Acrobat bookmarks are requested, include section numbers.
bookmarkstype | text | toc | to specify which ‘toc’ file to mimic
pdfhighlight | name | /I | How link buttons behave when selected; /I is for inverse (the default); the other possibilities are /N (no effect), /O (outline), and /P (inset highlighting).
citebordercolor | RGB color | 0 1 0 | The color of the box around citations
filebordercolor | RGB color | 0 .5 .5 | The color of the box around links to files
linkbordercolor | RGB color | 1 0 0 | The color of the box around normal links
menubordercolor | RGB color | 1 0 0 | The color of the box around Acrobat menu links
pagebordercolor | RGB color | 1 1 0 | The color of the box around links to pages
urlbordercolor | RGB color | 0 1 1 | The color of the box around links to URLs
runbordercolor | RGB color | 0 .7 .7 | color of border around ‘run’ links
pdfborder |  | 0 0 1 | The style of box around links; defaults to a box with lines of 1pt thickness, but the colorlinks option resets it to produce no border.

Note that the color of link borders can be specified only as 3 numbers in the range 0..1, giving an RGB color. You cannot use colors defined in TEX.

The bookmark commands are stored in a file called jobname.out. The files is not processed by LATEX so any markup is passed through. You can postprocess this file as needed; as an aid for this, the .out file is not overwritten on the next TEX run if it is edited to contain the line

\let\WriteBookmarks\relax

#### 3.6 PDF display and information options

baseurl | URL |  | Sets the base URL of the PDF document
pdfpagemode | text | None | Determines how the file is opening in Acrobat; the possibilities are None, UseThumbs (show thumbnails), UseOutlines (show bookmarks), and FullScreen. If no mode if explicitly chosen, but the bookmarks option is set, UseOutlines is used.
pdftitle | text |  | Sets the document information Title field
pdfauthor | text |  | Sets the document information Author field
pdfsubject | text |  | Sets the document information Subject field
pdfcreator | text |  | Sets the document information Creator field
pdfproducer | text |  | Sets the document information Producer field
pdfkeywords | text |  | Sets the document information Keywords field
pdfview | text | FitBH | Sets the default PDF ‘view’ for each link
pdfstartpage | text | 1 | Determines on which page the PDF file is opened.
pdfstartview | text | FitB | Set the startup page view
pdfpagescrop | n n n n |  | Sets the default PDF crop box for pages. This should be a set of four numbers
pdfcenterwindow | boolean | false | position the document window in the center of the screen
pdffitwindow | boolean | false | resize document window to fit document size
pdfmenubar | boolean | true | make PDF viewer’s menu bar visible
pdfnewwindow | boolean | false | make links that open another PDF file start a new window
pdfpagelayout | text | empty | set layout of PDF pages
pdfpagelabels | boolean | false | set PDF page labels
pdfpagetransition | text | empty | set PDF page transition style
pdftoolbar | boolean | true | make PDF toolbar visible
pdfwindowui | boolean | true | make PDF user interface elements visible
unicode |  |  | Unicode encoded PDF strings

Each link in Acrobat carries its own magnification level, which is set using PDF coordinate space, which is not the same as TEX’s. pdfTEX works by supplying default values for XYZ (horizontal × vertical × zoom) and FitBH. However, drivers using pdfmark do not supply defaults, so hyperref passes in a value of -32768, which causes Acrobat to set (usually) sensible defaults. The following are possible values for the pdfview and pdfstartview parameters.

XYZ | left top zoom | Sets a coordinate and a zoom factor. If any one is null, the source link value is used. null null null will give the same values as the current page.
Fit |  | Fits the page to the window.
FitH | top | Fits the width of the page to the window.
FitV | left | Fits the height of the page to the window.
FitR | left bottom right top | Fits the rectangle specified by the four coordinates to the window.
FitB |  | Fits the page bounding box to the window.
FitBH | top | Fits the width of the page bounding box to the window.
FitBV | left | Fits the height of the page bounding box to the window.

The pdfpagelayout can be one of the following values.

SinglePage | Displays a single page; advancing flips the page
OneColumn | Displays the document in one column; continuous scrolling.
TwoColumnLeft | Displays the document in two columns, odd-numbered pages to the left.
TwoColumnRight | Displays the document in two columns, odd-numbered pages to the right.

Finally, the pdfpagetransition can be one of the following values, where /Di stands for direction of motion in degrees, generally in 90o steps, /Dm is a horizontal (/H) or vertical (/V) dimension (e.g. Blinds /Dm /V), and /M is for motion, either in (/I) or out (/O).

Blinds | /Dm | Multiple lines distributed evenly across the screen sweep in the same direction to reveal the new page.
Box | /M | A box sweeps in or out.
Dissolve |  | The page image dissolves in a piecemeal fashion to reveal the new page.
Glitter | /Di | Similar to Dissolve, except the effect sweeps across the screen.
Split | /Dm /M | Two lines sweep across the screen to reveal the new page.
Wipe | /Di | A single line sweeps across the screen to reveal the new page.

#### 3.7 Big alphabetical list

The following is a complete listing of available options for hyperref, arranged alphabetically.

a4paper |  | use A4 paper
a5paper |  | use A5 paper
anchorcolor | black | set color of anchors
b5paper |  | use B5 paper
backref | false | do bibliographical back references
baseurl | empty | set base URL for document
bookmarks | true | make bookmarks
bookmarksnumbered | false | put section numbers in bookmarks
bookmarksopen | false | open up bookmark tree
bookmarksopenlevel | \maxdimen | level to which bookmarks are open
bookmarkstype | toc | to specify which ‘toc’ file to mimic
breaklinks | false | allow links to break over lines
citebordercolor | 0 1 0 | color of border around cites
citecolor | green | color of citation links
colorlinks | false | color links
| true | (tex4ht, dviwindo)
debug | false | provide details of anchors defined; same as verbose
draft | false | do not do any hyperlinking
dvipdf |  | use dvipdf backend
dvipdfm |  | use dvipdfm backend
dvips |  | use dvips backend
dvipsone |  | use dvipsone backend
dviwindo |  | use dviwindo backend
encap |  | to set encap character for hyperindex
executivepaper |  | use executivepaper
extension | dvi | suffix of linked files
filebordercolor | 0 .5 .5 | color of border around file links
filecolor | cyan | color of file links
final | true | opposite of option draft
frenchlinks | false | use small caps instead of color for links
hyperfigures | false | make figures hyper links
hyperindex | true | set up hyperlinked indices
hypertex |  | use HyperTEX backend
hypertexnames | true | use guessable names for links
implicit | true | redefine LATEX internals
latex2html |  | use LATEX2HTML backend
legalpaper |  | use legalpaper
letterpaper |  | use letterpaper
linkbordercolor | 1 0 0 | color of border around links
linkcolor | red | color of links
linktocpage | false | make page number, not text, be link on TOC, LOF and LOT
menubordercolor | 1 0 0 | color of border around menu links
menucolor | red | color for menu links
nativepdf | false | an alias for dvips
naturalnames | false | use LATEX-computed names for links
nesting | false | allow nesting of links
pageanchor | true | put an anchor on every page
pagebackref | false | backreference by page number
pagebordercolor | 1 1 0 | color of border around page links
pagecolor | red | color of page links
pdfauthor | empty | text for PDF Author field
pdfborder | 0 0 1 | width of PDF link border
| 0 0 0 | (colorlinks)
pdfcenterwindow | false | position the document window in the center of the screen
pdfcreator | LaTeX with | text for PDF Creator field
| hyperref |
| package |
pdffitwindow | false | resize document window to fit document size
pdfhighlight | /I | set highlighting of PDF links
pdfkeywords | empty | text for PDF Keywords field
pdfmark | false | an alias for dvips
pdfmenubar | true | make PDF viewer’s menu bar visible
pdfnewwindow | false | make links that open another PDF
|  | file start a new window
pdfpagelayout | empty | set layout of PDF pages
pdfpagemode | empty | set default mode of PDF display
pdfpagelabels | false | set PDF page labels
pdfpagescrop | empty | set crop size of PDF document
pdfpagetransition | empty | set PDF page transition style
pdfproducer | empty | text for PDF Producer field
pdfstartpage | 1 | page at which PDF document opens
pdfstartview | /Fit | starting view of PDF document
pdfsubject | empty | text for PDF Subject field
pdftex |  | use pdfTEX backend
pdftitle | empty | text for PDF Title field
pdftoolbar | true | make PDF toolbar visible
pdfview | empty | PDF ‘view’ when on link traversal
pdfwindowui | true | make PDF user interface elements visible
plainpages | true | do page number anchors as plain arabic
ps2pdf |  | use ps2pdf backend
raiselinks | false | raise up links (for HyperTEX backend)
runbordercolor | 0 .7 .7 | color of border around ‘run’ links
setpagesize | true | set page size by special driver commands
tex4ht |  | use TEX4ht backend
textures |  | use Textures backend
unicode |  | Unicode encoded pdf strings
urlbordercolor | 0 1 1 | color of border around URL links
urlcolor | magenta | color of URL links
verbose | false | be chatty
vtex |  | use VTeX backend

### 4 Additional user macros

If you need to make references to URLs, or write explicit links, the following low-level user macros are provided:

\href{URL}{text}

The text is made a hyperlink to the URL; this must be a full URL (relative to the base URL, if that is defined). The special characters # and ~ do not need to be escaped in any way.

\url{URL}

Equivalent to \href{URL}{URL}.

\nolinkurl{URL}

Write URL as plain text, without creating a hyperlink.

\hyperbaseurl{URL}

A base URL is established, which is prepended to other specified URLs, to make it easier to write portable documents.

\hyperimage{imageURL}

The image referenced by the URL is inserted.

\hyperdef{category}{name}{text}

A target area of the document (the text) is marked, and given the name category.name

\hyperref{URL}{category}{name}{text}

text is made into a link to URL#category.name

\hyperlink{name}{text}

\hypertarget{name}{text}

A simple internal link is created with \hypertarget, with two parameters of an anchor name, and anchor text. \hyperlink has two arguments, the name of a hypertext object defined somewhere by \hypertarget, and the text which be used as the link on the page.

Note that in HTML parlance, the \hyperlink command inserts a notional # in front of each link, making it relative to the current testdocument; \href expects a full URL.

\autoref{label}

This is a replacement for the usual \ref command that places a contextual label in front of the reference. This gives your users a bigger target to click for hyperlinks (e.g. ‘section 2’ instead of merely the number ‘2’).

The label is worked out from the context of the original \label command by hyperref by using the macros listed below (shown with their default values). The macros can be redefined in documents using \renewcommand; note that some of these macros are already defined in the standard document classes. The mixture of lowercase and uppercase initial letters is deliberate and corresponds to the author’s practice.

For each macro below, hyperref checks \*autorefname before \*name. For instance, it looks for \figureautorefname before \figurename.

Macro | Default
\figurename | Figure
\tablename | Table
\partname | Part
\appendixname | Appendix
\equationname | Equation
\Itemname | item
\Chaptername | chapter
\sectionname | section
\subsectionname | subsection
\subsubsectionname | subsubsection
\paragraphname | paragraph
\Hfootnotename | footnote
\AMSname | Equation
\theoremname | Theorem

For instances where you want a reference to use the correct counter, but not to create a link, there are two starred forms:

\ref*{label}

\pageref*{label}

A typical use would be to write

\hyperref[other]{that nice section (\ref*{other}) we read before}

We want \ref*{other} to generate the correct number, but not to form a link, since we do this ourselves with \hyperref.

\pdfstringdef{macroname}{TEXstring}

\pdfstringdef returns a macro containing the PDF string. (Currently this is done globally, but do not rely on it.) All the following tasks, definitions and redefinitions are made in a group to keep them local:

- Switching to PD1 or PU encoding
- Defining the “octal sequence commands” (\345): \edef\3{\string\3}
- Special glyphs of TEX: \{, \%, \&, \space, \dots, etc.
- National glyphs (german.sty, french.sty, etc.)
- Logos: \TeX, \eTeX, \MF, etc.
- Disabling commands that do not provide useful functionality in bookmarks: \label, \index, \glossary, \discretionary, \def, \let, etc.
- LATEX’s font commands like \textbf, etc.
- Support for \xspace provided by the xspace package

In addition, parentheses are protected to avoid the danger of unsafe unbalanced parentheses in the PDF string. For further details, see Heiko Oberdiek’s EuroTEX paper distributed with hyperref.

#### 4.1 Replacement macros

hyperref takes the text for bookmarks from the arguments of commands like \section, which can contain things like math, colors, or font changes, none of which will display in bookmarks as is.

\texorpdfstring{TEXstring}{PDFstring}

For example,

\section{Pythagoras: \texorpdfstring{$ a^2 + b^2 = c^2 $}{% a\texttwosuperior\ + b\texttwosuperior\ = c\texttwosuperior}} \section{\texorpdfstring{\textcolor{red}}{}{Red} Mars}

\pdfstringdef executes the hook before it expands the string. Therefore, you can use this hook to perform additional tasks or to disable additional commands.

\expandafter\def\expandafter\pdfstringdefPreHook \expandafter{% \pdfstringdefPreHook \renewcommand{\mycommand}[1]{}% }

However, for disabling commands, an easier way is via \pdfstringdefDisableCommands, which adds its argument to the definition of \pdfstringdefPreHook (‘@’ can here be used as letter in command names):

\pdfstringdefDisableCommands{% \let~\textasciitilde \def\url{\pdfstringdefwarn\url}% \let\textcolor\@gobble }

### 5 Acrobat-specific behavior

If you want to access the menu options of Acrobat Reader or Exchange, the following macro is provided in the appropriate drivers:

\Acrobatmenu{menuoption}{text}

The text is used to create a button which activates the appropriate menuoption. The following table lists the option names you can use—comparison of this with the menus in Acrobat Reader or Exchange will show what they do. Obviously some are only appropriate to Exchange.

File | Open, Close, Scan, Save, SaveAs, Optimizer:SaveAsOpt, Print, PageSetup, Quit
FileImport | ImportImage, ImportNotes, AcroForm:ImportFDF
FileExport | ExportNotes, AcroForm:ExportFDF
FileDocumentInfo | GeneralInfo, OpenInfo, FontsInfo, SecurityInfo, Weblink:Base, AutoIndex:DocInfo
FilePreferences | GeneralPrefs, NotePrefs, FullScreenPrefs, Weblink:Prefs, AcroSearch:Preferences(Windows) or, AcroSearch:Prefs(Mac), Cpt:Capture
Edit | Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, SelectAll, Ole:CopyFile, TouchUp:TextAttributes, TouchUp:FitTextToSelection, TouchUp:ShowLineMarkers, TouchUp:ShowCaptureSuspects, TouchUp:FindSuspect,
| Properties
EditFields | AcroForm:Duplicate, AcroForm:TabOrder
Document | Cpt:CapturePages, AcroForm:Actions, CropPages, RotatePages, InsertPages, ExtractPages, ReplacePages, DeletePages, NewBookmark, SetBookmarkDest, CreateAllThumbs, DeleteAllThumbs
View | ActualSize, FitVisible, FitWidth, FitPage, ZoomTo, FullScreen, FirstPage, PrevPage, NextPage, LastPage, GoToPage, GoBack, GoForward, SinglePage, OneColumn, TwoColumns, ArticleThreads, PageOnly, ShowBookmarks, ShowThumbs
Tools | Hand, ZoomIn, ZoomOut, SelectText, SelectGraphics, Note, Link, Thread, AcroForm:Tool, Acro_Movie:MoviePlayer, TouchUp:TextTool, Find, FindAgain, FindNextNote, CreateNotesFile
ToolsSearch | AcroSrch:Query, AcroSrch:Indexes, AcroSrch:Results, AcroSrch:Assist, AcroSrch:PrevDoc, AcroSrch:PrevHit, AcroSrch:NextHit, AcroSrch:NextDoc
Window | ShowHideToolBar, ShowHideMenuBar, ShowHideClipboard, Cascade, TileHorizontal, TileVertical, CloseAll
Help | HelpUserGuide, HelpTutorial, HelpExchange, HelpScan, HelpCapture, HelpPDFWriter, HelpDistiller, HelpSearch, HelpCatalog, HelpReader, Weblink:Home
Help(Windows) | About

### 6 PDF and HTML forms

You must put your fields inside a Form environment (only one per file).

There are six macros to prepare fields:

\TextField[parameters]{label}

\CheckBox[parameters]{label}

\ChoiceMenu[parameters]{label}{choices}

\PushButton[parameters]{label}

\Submit[parameters]{label}

\Reset[parameters]{label}

The way forms and their labels are laid out is determined by:

\LayoutTextField{label}{field}

\LayoutChoiceField{label}{field}

\LayoutCheckboxField{label}{field}

These macros default to #1 #2

What is actually shown in as the field is determined by:

\MakeRadioField{width}{height}

\MakeCheckField{width}{height}

\MakeTextField{width}{height}

\MakeChoiceField{width}{height}

\MakeButtonField{text}

These macros default to \vbox to #2{\hbox to #1{\hfill}\vfill}, except the last, which defaults to #1; it is used for buttons, and the special \Submit and \Reset macros.

You may also want to redefine the following macros:

\def\DefaultHeightofSubmit{12pt} \def\DefaultWidthofSubmit{2cm} \def\DefaultHeightofReset{12pt} \def\DefaultWidthofReset{2cm} \def\DefaultHeightofCheckBox{0.8\baselineskip} \def\DefaultWidthofCheckBox{0.8\baselineskip} \def\DefaultHeightofChoiceMenu{0.8\baselineskip} \def\DefaultWidthofChoiceMenu{0.8\baselineskip} \def\DefaultHeightofText{\baselineskip} \def\DefaultWidthofText{3cm}

#### 6.1 Forms environment parameters

action | URL | The URL that will receive the form data if a Submit button is included in the form
encoding | name | The encoding for the string set to the URL; FDF-encoding is usual, and html is the only valid value
method | name | Used only when generating HTML; values can be post or get

#### 6.2 Forms optional parameters

Note that all colors must be expressed as RGB triples, in the range 0..1 (i.e. color=0 0 0.5)

accesskey | key |  | (as per HTML)
align | number | 0 | alignment within text field; 0 is left-aligned,
|  |  | 1 is centered, 2 is right-aligned.
backgroundcolor |  |  | color of box
bordercolor |  |  | color of border
bordersep |  |  | box border gap
borderwidth |  |  | width of box border
calculate |  |  | JavaScript code to calculate the value of the field
charsize | dimen |  | font size of field text
checked | boolean | false | whether option selected by default
color |  |  | color of text in box
combo | boolean | false | choice list is ‘combo’ style
default |  |  | default value
disabled | boolean | false | field disabled
format |  |  | JavaScript code to format the field
height | dimen |  | height of field box
hidden | boolean | false | field hidden
ketstroke |  |  | JavaScript code to control the keystrokes on entry
maxlen | number | 0 | number of characters allowed in text field
menulength | number | 4 | number of elements shown in list
multiline | boolean | false | whether text box is multiline
name | name |  | name of field (defaults to label)
onblur |  |  | JavaScript code
onchange |  |  | JavaScript code
onclick |  |  | JavaScript code
ondblclick |  |  | JavaScript code
onfocus |  |  | JavaScript code
onkeydown |  |  | JavaScript code
onkeypress |  |  | JavaScript code
onkeyup |  |  | JavaScript code
onmousedown |  |  | JavaScript code
onmousemove |  |  | JavaScript code
onmouseout |  |  | JavaScript code
onmouseover |  |  | JavaScript code
onmouseup |  |  | JavaScript code
onselect |  |  | JavaScript code
password | boolean | false | text field is ‘password’ style
popdown | boolean | false | choice list is ‘popdown’ style
radio | boolean | false | choice list is ‘radio’ style
readonly | boolean | false | field is readonly
tabkey |  |  | (as per HTML)
validate |  |  | JavaScript code to validate the entry
value |  |  | initial value
width | dimen |  | width of field box

### 7 Defining a new driver

A hyperref driver has to provide definitions for eight macros:

1. \hyper@anchor

2. \hyper@link

3. \hyper@linkfile

4. \hyper@linkurl

5. \hyper@anchorstart

6. \hyper@anchorend

7. \hyper@linkstart

8. \hyper@linkend

The draft option defines the macros as follows

\let\hyper@@anchor\@gobble \gdef\hyper@link##1##2##3{##3}% \def\hyper@linkurl##1##2{##1}% \def\hyper@linkfile##1##2##3{##1}% \let\hyper@anchorstart\@gobble \let\hyper@anchorend\@empty \let\hyper@linkstart\@gobbletwo \let\hyper@linkend\@empty

### 8 Special support for other packages

hyperref aims to cooperate with other packages, but there are several possible sources for conflict, such as

- Packages that manipulate the bibliographic mechanism. Peter William’s harvard package is supported. However, the recommended package is Patrick Daly’s natbib package that has specific hyperref hooks to allow reliable interaction. This package covers a very wide variety of layouts and citation styles, all of which work with hyperref.
- Packages that typeset the contents of the \label and \ref macros, such as showkeys. Since the hyperref package redefines these commands, you must set implicit=false for these packages to work.
- Packages that do anything serious with the index.

The hyperref package is distributed with variants on two useful packages designed to work especially well with it. These are xr and minitoc, which support crossdocument links using LATEX’s normal \label/\ref mechanisms and per-chapter tables of contents, respectively.

### 9 History and acknowledgments

The original authors of hyperbasics.tex and hypertex.sty, from which this package descends, are Tanmoy Bhattacharya (tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov) and Thorsten Ohl (thorsten.ohl@physik.th-darmstadt.de). hyperref started as a simple port of their work to LATEX2 standards, but eventually I rewrote nearly everything, because I didn’t understand a lot of the original, and was only interested in getting it to work with LATEX. I would like to thank Arthur Smith, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Mark Doyle, Paul Ginsparg, David Carlisle, T. V. Raman and Leslie Lamport for comments, requests, thoughts and code to get the package into its first useable state. Various other people are mentioned at the point in the source where I had to change the code in later versions because of problems they found.

Tanmoy found a great many of the bugs, and (even better) often provided fixes, which has made the package more robust. The days spent on RevTEX are entirely due to him! The investigations of Bill Moss (bmoss@math.clemson.edu) into the later versions including native PDF support uncovered a good many bugs, and his testing is appreciated. Hans Hagen (pragma@pi.net) provided a lot of insight into PDF.

Berthold Horn provided help, encouragement and sponsorship for the dvipsone and dviwindo drivers. Sergey Lesenko provided the changes needed for dvipdf, and Hàn Thê' Thành supplied all the information needed for pdftex. Patrick Daly kindly updated his natbib package to allow easy integration with hyperref. Michael Mehlich’s hyper package (developed in parallel with hyperref) showed me solutions for some problems. Hopefully the two packages will combine one day.

The forms creation section owes a great deal to: T. V. Raman, for encouragement, support and ideas; Thomas Merz, whose book Web Publishing with Acrobat/PDF provided crucial insights; D. P. Story, whose detailed article about pdfmarks and forms solved many practical problems; and Hans Hagen, who explained how to do it in pdftex.

Steve Dandy recreated the manual source in July 2003 after it had been lost.

Especial extra thanks to David Carlisle for the backref module, the ps2pdf and dviwindo support, frequent general rewrites of my bad code, and for working on changes to the xr package to suit hyperref.

### 10 GNU Free Documentation License

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#### Preamble

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#### 10.1 Applicability and definitions

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#### 10.2 Verbatim copying

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You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and you may publicly display copies.

#### 10.3 Copying in quantity

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If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent pages.

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It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.

#### 10.4 Modifications

You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under the conditions of sections 10.2 and 10.3 above, provided that you release the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:

1. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
2. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you from this requirement.
3. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the Modified Version, as the publisher.
4. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
5. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications adjacent to the other copyright notices.
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8. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
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10. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on. These may be placed in the “History” section. You may omit a network location for a work that was published at least four years before the Document itself, or if the original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
11. For any section Entitled “Acknowledgements” or “Dedications”, Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or dedications given therein.
12. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
13. Delete any section Entitled “Endorsements”. Such a section may not be included in the Modified Version.
14. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled “Endorsements” or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
15. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.

If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version’s license notice. These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.

You may add a section Entitled “Endorsements”, provided it contains nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various parties–for example, statements of peer review or that the text has been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a standard.

You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of, you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.

The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version.

#### 10.5 Combining documents

You may combine the Document with other documents released under this License, under the terms defined in section 10.4 above for modified versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.

The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different contents, make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number. Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.

In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled “History” in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled “History”; likewise combine any sections Entitled “Acknowledgements”, and any sections Entitled “Dedications”. You must delete all sections Entitled “Endorsements”.

#### 10.6 Collections of documents

You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.

You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.

#### 10.7 Aggregation with independent works

A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the copyright resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights of the compilation’s users beyond what the individual works permit. When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves derivative works of the Document.

If the Cover Text requirement of section 10.3 is applicable to these copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one half of the entire aggregate, the Document’s Cover Texts may be placed on covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form. Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole aggregate.

#### 10.8 Translation

Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 10.4. Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special permission from their copyright holders, but you may include translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a translation of this License, and all the license notices in the Document, and any Warranty Disclaimers, provided that you also include the original English version of this License and the original versions of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between the translation and the original version of this License or a notice or disclaimer, the original version will prevail.

If a section in the Document is Entitled “Acknowledgements”, “Dedications”, or “History”, the requirement (section 10.4) to Preserve its Title (section 10.1) will typically require changing the actual title.

#### 10.9 Termination

You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.

#### 10.10 Future revisions of this license

The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.

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#### Addendum: how to use this license for your documents

To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page:

Copyright © YEAR YOUR NAME. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, replace the “with...Texts.” line with this:

with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST.

If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the situation.

If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to permit their use in free software.