LinkToObject

PowerScript function

Description

Links the current object to an object that already exists in the PDF
document.

Applies to

PDFText object in Objects and Controls

PDFImage object in Objects and Controls

PDFMultilineText object in Objects and Controls

PDFTextBlock object in Objects and Controls

Syntax

long LinkToObject(PDFModel object)

1	long LinkToObject(PDFModel object)

Argument	Description
object	The object that the current object links to. The object type can only be one of the following: PDFText, PDFImage, PDFMultilinkText, PDFTextBlock.

Return value

Long. Returns 1 if it succeeds, or -1 if an error occurs. For more
errors, see the Error Codes.

Usage

Call the function to link the current object with the specified
object.

Examples

The following example links the PDFText object (with the content
“jump to me”) to the current PDFText object (with the content “I am
PDFtexttext).

PDFdocument lpdf_doc
PDFpage lpdf_page
PDFtext lpdf_text,lpdf_textlink

lpdf_doc = create PDFdocument
lpdf_page = create PDFpage
lpdf_text = create PDFtext
lpdf_textlink = create PDFtext

lpdf_text.backcolor.rgb = rgb(255,0,0)
lpdf_text.textcolor.rgb = rgb(0,255,0)
lpdf_text.font.fontsize = 38
lpdf_text.content = "I am PDFtext text"
lpdf_textlink.content = "jump to me"
//Support PDFtext, PDFmultilinetext, PDFimage, and PDFtextblock
lpdf_text.linktoobject( lpdf_textlink)

lpdf_page.addcontent( lpdf_text)
lpdf_page.addcontent( lpdf_textlink)

lpdf_doc.addpage( lpdf_page)
lpdf_doc.save( "D:	extlink.pdf")