What applications support linkback, Goals and non-goals, How you might use linkback – Nisus Writer Pro User Manual
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Nisus Writer Pro and the Community of Connected Applications
What applications support LinkBack
LinkBack is included in a number of fine applications. You can learn the current state of
development at:
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Goals and non-goals
The goals of the LinkBack framework are
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To enable applications to share data with one another, maintaining a link to the originating
application so that you can edit the data or have it refreshed.
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To provide this functionality though underlying technology that is simple to use and requires
minimal changes in an existing Cocoa-based application.
The goal of LinkBack is not to provide for in-application editing of data from another application.
For example, LinkBack does not provide for a graphics application to do graphics editing in a word
processor.
How you might use LinkBack
A user scenario that depicts how we envision LinkBack being used follows.
Use LinkBack with a drawing application
1. Create a new image for your research paper with a graphics tool.
2. Paste the image into a Nisus Writer Pro document.
3. You decide you need to change the drawing in your Nisus Writer Pro drawing.
4. Double-click the image in Nisus Writer Pro.
The original application opens and displays the image.
5. Make your changes and choose Save in the drawing application
This updates the image in Nisus Writer Pro.
Nisus Writer Pro and the Internet
You can insert “clickable” links to URLs on the Internet using Nisus Writer Pro.
Insert a Link to a Location on the World Wide Web
1. Type the text you wish to have appear in your document.
2. Select that text.
3. Choose the menu command Insert > Hyperlink….
4. Type the URL to which you want to have the text refer.
You can paste in a URL you copied from a Web browser (if you have it in another of the Nisus
Writer Pro Clipboards).
5. Click Insert.
When you add a hyperlink to your text, Nisus Writer Pro adds a Hyperlink character style to
your document, that is by default blue and underlined, and applies that style to the linked text.
You can modify the appearance of the style, or remove it altogether in the Style Sheet view.
This information is preserved when you “save” or print your file as a PDF and the link is
“clickable” in the PDF document.
Open a Document on the Web
There are two ways to open a document on the Web from a link in your Nisus Writer Pro document.
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The easiest is to simply click the visible linked text in the document.
Additionally, you can:
1. Press 6.
2. Point your insertion point to the hyperlinked text and click your mouse button or trackpad.
3. Choose Open Link from the contextual menu that appears.
Copy a Link to a Document on the Web
1. Press 6.
2. Point your insertion point to the hyperlinked text and click your mouse button or trackpad.
3. Choose Copy Link from the contextual menu that appears.