Bug#452222: Annoying border around hyperlinks

[Trent W. Buck]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:55:18AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 23:31 +1100, Trent W. Buck a écrit :
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:18:57PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > > When viewing a PDF with a hyperlink around normal (black, not blue)
> > > > text, historically xpdf has drawn a blue border around the link and
> > > > evince has not.
> > > >
> > > > I find these borders distracting and irritating, but can find no way
> > > > to disable them.  Please add an option to disable these borders.
> > >
> > > I see what you mean [...] I can't reproduce the issue.  Do you have
> > > a sample document that shows this behavior?
> > 
> > Please find attached an example PDF, generated by html2ps and ps2pdf.
> 
> It would be good to ask someone who knows the PDF format, but it looks
> to me that these borders are requested in the document:
>         <</Type/Annot
>         /Rect [196.623 647.15 220.623 659.25]
>         /Border [0 0 1]
>         /A<</URI(http://wikipedia.org/wiki/1960)
>         /S/URI>>

Hmm.  AFAICT html2ps was version 1.0b5-5 both before and after I
noticed this change, so perhaps evince was (until recently) ignoring
this request.  That is, evince not drawing the borders was a bug and
the bug was recently fixed.

This is just a guess; I'm not at all familiar with PostScript or PDF.
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