A problem with colors in WinEdt

Question

I have a problem with colors in WinEdt.
When I compile the MWE below in WinEdt, the text

this becomes a link

is correctly green.

But when I save it as a pdf file, then the color becomes incorrectly
black, though the clickability correctly persists.

%&latex
%documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}

documentclass[14pt]{book}
topmargin 2mm
oddsidemargin 10mm
evensidemargin 10mm
textwidth 150mm
textheight 220mm

usepackage[latin2]{inputenc}
usepackage[czech]{babel}
%usepackage{czech}
usepackage{latexsym}
usepackage{a4}
usepackage{makeidx}
usepackage{theorem}

usepackage[pdftex,breaklinks,colorlinks,citecolor=blue,urlcolor=blue,pdftitle={Lecture 9},pdfauthor={Ryan Higginbottom},linkcolor=green,pdfsubject={LaTeX}]{hyperref}

%makeindex

renewcommand{theenumi}{roman{enumi}}

begin{document}
Linkshyperlink{foo_1}{This becomes a link}.
hypertarget{foo_2}{This is the target}.
newpage

hypertarget{foo_1}{This is the target}.
Linkshyperlink{foo_2}{This becomes a link}.

end{document}

David Carlisle · Answer

the first line

%&latex

forces the pdflatex to act like latex, in dvi mode, not like pdflatex, as such if you run pdflatex on the file then you get the error

! Package hyperref Error: Wrong driver option `pdftex',
(hyperref)                because pdfTeX in PDF mode is not detected.

and no usable output.

If you delete that line it runs without error and produces

As you see here it is best to avoid driver options like [pdftex  as hyperref will choose a suitable driver if you do not force it to use the wrong one,

A problem with colors in WinEdt

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