General ⇒ How to get bookmarks in the PDF

[Medova]

Does anyone know what determines of you get bookmarks and hyperlinks in the PDF-file created from LaTeX to PS to PDF...?
I suppose that it's not a preamble related problem, since my friend borrowed my preamble but still get no bookmarks or hyperlinks in his PDFs - is it a package? And in that case, which package?

Thx...

[localghost]

It's simply the hyperref package which is responsible for bookmarks and similar things. Refer to its documentation to get things work.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Medova]

Thx, that was what I've read earlier on this and other fora, but there seems to be more to it. He is using {hyperref}, but still gets no bookmarks. Is there styles or packages that {hyperref} is not compatible with? Ex. the package {pslatex}

When I turn my {hyperref} on and off it acts as it should, but I'm not using {pslatex}

[localghost]

In this case we need to see the (complete) preamble to comprehend the problem. But the best would be if there's a minimal working example (MWE) provided that shows the undesired behavior. Sometimes during the process of creation the problem already can be fixed and so gets solved this way.

[curiouslearn]

I am not entirely sure, but, don't you have to use PDFLatex directly to get hyperlinks? Your friend's problem might be that he is first getting the ps output. Maybe I am wrong...because, otherwise localghost would have pointed this out

[Medova]

To generate this problem, all I needed was to make a preable containing:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,openright,english]{report}
\usepackage{hyperref}

This generates bookmarks for me but not for my friend - so this is not a preamble/package-problem I guess... could it be some setting in TeXnic Center, Adope distiller or elsewere?

[localghost]

Compile exactly the same minimal working example (MWE) on both machines to compare the log files. It is very important that you use the same compiler to get the same output format. Insert as very first line the \listfiles command into the code. Post the two log files here as attachment.