From 07ab98f5afbb10325885817b93876f9e59f55860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "James R. Barlow" Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:12:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: mention that Ghostscript PDF/A can swallow hyperlinks Addresses #605 --- docs/introduction.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/introduction.rst b/docs/introduction.rst index 5fb5c594..360d57ec 100644 --- a/docs/introduction.rst +++ b/docs/introduction.rst @@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ Ghostscript also imposes some limitations: - Ghostscript's PDF/A conversion removes any XMP metadata that is not one of the standard XMP metadata namespaces for PDFs. In particular, PRISM Metdata is removed. +- Ghostscript's PDF/A conversion seems to remove or deactivate + hyperlinks and other active content. + +You can use ``--output-type pdf`` to disable PDF/A conversion and produce +a standard, non-archival PDF. Regarding OCRmyPDF itself: