Bug 142765

Summary:	Warning on dvips hyperlinks seems obsolete
Product:	kdvi	Reporter:	Olivier Vitrat <ovit.debian>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adaptee
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Olivier Vitrat 2007-03-09 22:38:19 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

This is reported in Debian BTS at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350763

I quote the end of page 6 from
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdvi/KDVI-features.dvi.gz:

<quote>
Warning. 
On some installations, the hyperref macro package is configured to
generate PostScript hyperlinks for dvips by default. On these 
systems, using the line

\usepackage{hyperref}

will generate DVI file whose hyperlinks are not visible in KDVI. 
Worse, KDVI will call the ghostview PostScript interpreter for every
page, which makes the display very slow.
</quote>

For me, KDVI properly displays dvips hyperlinks.  I haven't noticed
that the display is slow either.

Therefore the warning may not apply any more.

Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2013-09-28 13:43:27 UTC

kdvi is no longer maintained since KDE SC 4, and its functionality is replace by okular.  If the issue in this report still exists in or apply to okular in KDE SC 4.10.5 or higher, please reassign the report to okular product or create a new report against okular.