matteosecli / matteosecli/pdf2archive
Converting breaks hyperlinks and crossreference links
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Description
Hi.
Thanks for sharing pdf2archive. I tested it and it worked on all the PDF documents I tried to convert. However, I noticed that hyperlinks and crossreference links (e. g. links to other pages in the same document) did not work after converting. It seems as if such links get deleted during the conversion.
The following test files exemplify this better.
Original file: [pdf2archive-conversion-test.pdf](https://github.com/matteosecli/pdf2archive/files/5090878/pdf2archive-conversion-test.pdf)
Converted file: [pdf2archive-conversion-test-PDFA.pdf](https://github.com/matteosecli/pdf2archive/files/5090879/pdf2archive-conversion-test-PDFA.pdf)
Do you know the reason for this behavior and how easy it would be to resolve it?
Best,
Marc
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Reproduce the conversion using the linked original and converted PDF test files, then trace the shell command and Ghostscript invocation used by pdf2archive. Investigate where hyperlinks and cross-reference links are lost; the work is done when converted PDF/A output preserves both kinds of links.
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