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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 861725" data-attributes="member: 813"><p>I don't mean to flippant here but you do know that in Acrobat Reader there is a box in the lower left of the window frame where the page number is listed. When it says 25 of 108 you can type 85 into is and it will change to page 85 instantly. Yes, that's not as convenient as just clicking the number 85 but the functionallity is built into the reader to just from page to page.</p><p>What are these places? Where can I buy these PDFs and see what other PDF producers do? Name titles of PDFs and websites where those sites are offered and list websites where fanboys of such PDFs exist so I can see someone get flamed for failing to hyperlink properly? You have an experience I know nothing about. Enlighten me. And don't point me a google, you were very vague about what topics these PDFs cover.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to speculate now, but I'll bet the "programming" ones are made by people with programming backgrounds who know their way arounf the PDF specification.</p><p>The problem with this is I don't know two gamers who use the same character sheet (who play the same game system). 7 people sitting at a table playing the same game, 7 different character sheet styles. Thus, I don't think I (or anyone else) could design a character sheet that would satisfy even 1% of my readers. YMMV.</p><p>Except that this market does not consider the lack of cross-linking unprofessional. Lack of bookmarks on the other hand is considered unprofessional. Since no one has demonstatively lost sales because their PDFs lack internal cross-linking, there is no market pressure (except your posts in this thread <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) to do so. Additionally, we contend that it takes too much time in terms of making the cross-links and checking the cross-links compared to out profit margins. Until lacking cross-linking affects profit margics, they will not happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 861725, member: 813"] I don't mean to flippant here but you do know that in Acrobat Reader there is a box in the lower left of the window frame where the page number is listed. When it says 25 of 108 you can type 85 into is and it will change to page 85 instantly. Yes, that's not as convenient as just clicking the number 85 but the functionallity is built into the reader to just from page to page. What are these places? Where can I buy these PDFs and see what other PDF producers do? Name titles of PDFs and websites where those sites are offered and list websites where fanboys of such PDFs exist so I can see someone get flamed for failing to hyperlink properly? You have an experience I know nothing about. Enlighten me. And don't point me a google, you were very vague about what topics these PDFs cover. I'm going to speculate now, but I'll bet the "programming" ones are made by people with programming backgrounds who know their way arounf the PDF specification. The problem with this is I don't know two gamers who use the same character sheet (who play the same game system). 7 people sitting at a table playing the same game, 7 different character sheet styles. Thus, I don't think I (or anyone else) could design a character sheet that would satisfy even 1% of my readers. YMMV. Except that this market does not consider the lack of cross-linking unprofessional. Lack of bookmarks on the other hand is considered unprofessional. Since no one has demonstatively lost sales because their PDFs lack internal cross-linking, there is no market pressure (except your posts in this thread :) ) to do so. Additionally, we contend that it takes too much time in terms of making the cross-links and checking the cross-links compared to out profit margins. Until lacking cross-linking affects profit margics, they will not happen. [/QUOTE]
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