Document Classes ⇒ Hyperlinks in Presentation

[pieffebi]

Hi,

I was trying to hyperlink the pages of my beamer presentation but, despite I was following some examples found on the web, had no success. The beamer button was created correctly, but the link was (apparently) missing.

I downloaded used "minimal example" in this post by bkarpuz and it worked all right.

After some experimenting I found out that the problem in my document has apparently to do with the shrinking option.

The behavior I'm observing can be reproduced in the example posted by bkarpuz. Actually I wrote my post thinking I was replying to the original topic, but it showed up as new, probably because the original topic was solved (sorry about that). I'm amending my post so that it can be understood by itself. The code still refers to the example posted by bkarpuz.

If I change the "introduction" frame of the example so that the button is on the same line as the preceding text (i.e. I delete the newline \\) and the frame is shrunk down.

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\begin{frame}[shrink=15]
  \frametitle{Introduction}
  Some introductory text here.
  \hyperlink{mr<1>}{\beamerskipbutton{Skip Introduction}}
\end{frame}

The button looses its hyperlink. I am doing this in order to reproduce the situation in my original document, where the hyperlink was on the same line as some text, inside a shrunk frame.

The introduction of the shrinking factor or the removal of the newline sequence do not singularly affect the link. That is, the link works in both of the following cases

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% case 1: only shrink factor, newline present
\begin{frame}[shrink=15]
  \frametitle{Introduction}
  Some introductory text here. \\
  \hyperlink{mr<1>}{\beamerskipbutton{Skip Introduction}}
\end{frame}

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% case 2: no shrink factor nor newline
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Introduction}
  Some introductory text here.
  \hyperlink{mr<1>}{\beamerskipbutton{Skip Introduction}}
\end{frame}

Is this a known behavior? Is the newline sequence \\ mandatory before an hyperlink? From the examples I have found on the internet, I'd say no. But, on the other hand, each hyperlink in the example of bkarpuz is preceded by a \\.


Thanks a lot for any insight.
Francesco