Text Formatting ⇒ Problem with hyperref in the Contents

[mcnguyen]

Hi all,

The package "hyperref" does not work correctly on the links which contain captions link (\cite ou \ref) in the Contents (\tableofcontents) or Table of figures (\tableoffigures) when I compile by latex standard (latex-dvipdf). However, it is good when I use pdflatex.

Who could explain this difference, and how I can correctly obtain when I want to use latex-dvipdf.

Attached tex file and two pdf files compiled by latex and pdflatex.

Thank you very much.
Minh Chien

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{Test chapter\label{chapter}}
\section{Test Section 1}
\section{Test Section \ref{chapter}}


\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

All links work as expected for me, can you outrule a viewer issue?


Apart from the technical side, i don't recommend using references in sectional titles.

[mcnguyen]

I enclose the difference in a pdf file.

Thank you for your attention.
Minh Chien

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Minh,

you could work with LaTeX --> DVI --> PS --> PDF using latex, dvips and ps2pdf. That's the old-fashioned way which should work with hyperref. LaTeX editors often have this compiling chain as an option.

hyperref doesn't have a dvipdf driver support. However, it provides dvipdfm and dvipdfmx as options. In case you use one of those converters, you can specify it, or just give each a try:

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\usepackage[dvipdfmx]{hyperref}

Stefan

[mcnguyen]

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your answer, the problem is solved by dvipdfm and dvipdfmx backend.

However, I prefer dvips backend even if the problem does not work correctly.

Minh Chien

[Stefan Kottwitz]

dvipdfm and dvipdfmx still use standard LaTeX in dvi mode. Just the conversion to PDF is done differently. So it's not pdfLaTeX.

You said latex-dvipdf, so I assumed it's not the way over ps. In the case of latex-dvi-ps-pdf, you can try

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\usepackage[dvips]{hyperref}

though hyperref should choose the correct driver automatically.

Stefan

[mcnguyen]

Here, I simply say dvipdf, mean latex-dvi-ps-pdf using latex dvips ps2pdf.

I think that dvips option is selected by default in standard latex. Although I have chosen this option \usepackage[dvips]{hyperref} and I use latex-dvi-ps2pdf, I have always this problem.

Minh Chien