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In my PDF document, while opened in the PDF viewer (AR), I would like to have coloured text as hyperlinks instead of boxes.

So I set the package option ocgcolorlinks with hyperref, because links should come out as black (the default text colour) when printed on paper.

However, if I run latex on my document source (I am using the dvips+ps2pdf route) I get the warning message 

Package hyperref Warning: Driver does not support `ocgcolorlinks',
(hyperref)                using `colorlinks' instead on input line 66.

and I get coloured link text on paper.

Recently, Ghostscript was added support for OCGs (PDF Layer). In theory, it should now be possible to make the ocgcolorlinks option functional with dvips+ps2pdf.

How difficult would it be to implement this? Moreover, it would be nice to make ocgcolorlinks compatibile with the ocgx and ocg-p packages at the same time, as shown here for the other workflows (dvipdfmx, xelatex). (Those packages are used to put text on PDF layers.)

AlexG
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Edit:

Option ocgcolorlinks has been made available for use with dvips+ps2pdf through pkg ocgx2:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[ocgcolorlinks]{ocgx2}

This implements the ocgcolorlinks option for hyperref for use with dvips+ps2pdf.

Now, ocgcolorlinks works with all known drivers/engines. Also, the incompatibility with the PDF-Layer producing packages ocgx and ocg-p is fixed.

\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{ocg-p}

% this loads ocg-p automatically; enables OCGs for dvips/ps2pdf (GS-9.15)
\usepackage{ocgx}\usepackage{fixocgx}

\usepackage[ocgcolorlinks]{hyperref}

...

AlexG
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