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[Александр Волков <a.volkov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Adam,

> While I think I understand the motivation, I do not think that this
> course of action is appropriate: There is no need to rush things as
> this will definitely not be part of version 0.3.7, so we have a much
> time as we want to do this properly.

Ok, it makes sense to create intermediate intefaces for links and
maybe annotations, but there is no reason to do it for form fields,
as no other format supports them.

> And in my point of view, splitting the program into those three parts
> is equivalent to adding an intermediate interface layer. The
> PostScript implementation would then just never yield any links and
> other interactive elements and hence wouldn't even need to implement
> the corresponding interfaces. I also find it rather important that the
> presentation specific code does not leave the presentation classes
> DocumentView and PageItem as it is the document format and not its
> presentation that needs to be encapsulated.

Yes, with interface for links there will be no need in PdfPresentationView.

Regards, Alexander.