Using dmenu to open links from xterm

Question

Hi there,
Not too long ago, I toyed with xterm to make URL selection somewhat similar to urxvt's with url-select. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181515
Not too satisfied because it requires compiling xterm, I found a simpler solution. First off, you need this little script. I called it grab-urls:
#!/bin/bash
regex='\bhttps?://[^ ]*\b'
function menu { dmenu -p 'Open URL' ; }
function open { dwb -n "$1" ; }
urls="$(grep -Eo "$regex")"
[ -z "$urls" ] && exit
url="$(echo "$urls" | tac | menu)"
[ -n "$url" ] && open "$url"
Next, the trick is to have xterm pipe the content of its scrollback to that script. In your .Xresources:
xterm*printerCommand: /path/to/grab-urls
*VT100.Translations: #override \n\
Alt <Key>u: print-everything(noAttrs, noNewLine)
After sourcing it with xrdb and restarting xterm, pressing Alt+u should spawn dmenu with the links it found.
This is nothing too fancy, but I thought I'd share it.

Answer 1

You mentioned that The file has links to other files in the package. How did those links get there? Were those links originally between PDF files in a relative folder structure? Then you put those PDF files into the PDF package?
Unfortunately, Acrobat 9 does not support hypertext linking between files in a PDF package.
You mentioned your lack of success getting the links from the second file in the PDF package. In your PackageFiles result element, you can specify the name of the file you want, but you cannot specify the ordinal number of the file.  Here is a DDX that extracts a file from a package. The <NoPackage> changes the result from a PDF package to a single PDF.
<DDX xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/DDX/1.0/">
<PDF result="myresult">
<NoPackage/>
    <PackageFiles  nameKeys="Recap.pdf">
        <PDF source="doc1"/>
    </PackageFiles>
</PDF>
</DDX>