Autodesk Revit and Hyperlinks #2

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Matt Taylor
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Autodesk Revit and Hyperlinks #2

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Hello,
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I work for a company that holds a global corporate license for PDF-XChange Pro, and a license for the PDF-XChange Driver API.
We have a set of PDF creation tools for Autodesk Revit (that I wrote) utilising the API.

We cannot create hyperlinked views within the API or UI created PDFs as we can with PDF995 or BlueBeam or Adobe Acrobat.
In the forum post noted above, XPS is mentioned. I note that XPS driver mode is now possible by specifying this in the Properties. This setting doesn't help with this issue.

Questions:
Is creating view hyperlinks within Autodesk Revit currently possible, and how do I do this?
If not, is it on the development road map? If so, then what is the time-frame for its launch?

Thanks,

Matt
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Re: Autodesk Revit and Hyperlinks #2

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Hi, Matt Taylor

My apologies, but as we have no plans to integrate our software with Autodesk, and I do not use it myself, I cannot provide a good answer to your questions. You would likely want to direct them to the Autodesk support team.

If Autodesk supports links to specific views, and has a protocol that windows will recognize is to be directed to it, than you can use that protocol. Typing that protocol along with a document path containing the "desired view" in any "web link item" within our Editor will send the command to windows for interpretation.

Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
Tracker Software Products (Canada) LTD

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Matt Taylor
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Re: Autodesk Revit and Hyperlinks #2

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Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your info. That is a shame. It seems that Bluebeam or something similar may be the way we need to go.

Do any of the APIs support reading the text from a PDF file, and reporting the location of each text item? (If so, it would be possible to create the links programmatically by post-processing the PDF.)

Kind regards,

Matt
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