PDF links not handled

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a PDF document with internal and/or external links
2. Links are not handled (not shown, not clickable)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
1. Mouse over a link should change the pointer
2. Clicking the link should follow it (change to the pointed page / open in a 
web browser / ...)

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by christop...@gmail.com on 30 May 2008 at 9:06

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This is really critical for my professional use.  Part of the point for me in 
using beamer was ready access to 
better navigation than one-slide-forward and one-slide-back.  This will be 
great when links work.  Until 
then, I'm afraid it's effectively useless.  

Note that Skim, which is also open source, does properly follow links in beamer 
output (but can't split the 
screens as you no doubt know), so it ought to be a matter of swiping some code 
from there.  I tried to do it 
quickly this evening, but didn't immediately see what the relevant code was.  
It doesn't help that I haven't 
used svn in over a year and found it _extremely_ clumsy and poorly documented 
when I did use it.  So I don't 
know whether I can actually give you any help on this project.  I assume since 
you haven't implemented it, 
that it is not standard in PDFkit in the Quartz frameworks?

Original comment by Lenore.H...@fuse.net on 22 Aug 2009 at 1:59

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I was wrong.  PDFKit does do the following hyperlinks.  The little PDFKitViewer 
that comes in the example code 
implements link-following at least from the index in the sidebar (I didn't 
check buttons) in a pdf file created by 
Beamer.

Original comment by Lenore.H...@fuse.net on 22 Aug 2009 at 2:44