Adding hyperlink support

[anonymous]

Being able to follow links (particularly internal cross-references) would be nice. If externals are enabled, a configurable option to define the browser would be nice, too.

[anonymous]

Ah - just read your blog and see that this is intended at some point. Maybe inappropriate to tack on here but I've realized that, in a flurry of 'tickets', I neglected to express my appreciation for a wonderful target for an application. A simple modern PDF viewer with minimal dependencies and other requirements is a fantastic goal that I'm sure many, myself included, have wanted very much for a very long time. Thanks!

[jordi]

Added support for cross references links.

[anonymous]

i tried the svn 158 version and i couldn't click on urls to open them. they wheren't even recognized as hyperlinks (or doesn't the mouse cursor change over hyperlinks? if not, it should) so i reopen this one.

[jordi]

True, only internal cross references are implemented. Not URLs yet...

[anonymous]

ok, but i guess it's better to leave this ticket open, since urls are hyperlinks too ;)

[jordi]

URI's are now also implemented ([197]) using the command line that the user enters in the new preferences dialog ([199]).

[anonymous]

I'm sorry to reopen this ticket, but I just tried the svn 202 version of epdfview, and with every pdf I tested, hyperlinks (for example www.google.com or http://www.google.com ) that work with acroread aren't even recognized as links with epdfview. Do you have a pdf file with hyperlinks that actually works with epdfview?

[jordi]

I tried with the following documents:

• http://www.opencroquet.org/Site%20PDFs/2006%20PresenceVehiclesVectorFields.pdf (First Page)
• http://acroeng.adobe.com/Test_Files/Acrobat_Sanity/weblink_url_test.pdf (every link works for me)
• http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/PDFReference.pdf (see Bibliography)

The following doesn't "work":

• http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/War_and_Peace_NT.pdf
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/download/langspec-3.0.pdf

As I see it, the "problem" is not that ePDFView doesn't handle hyperlinks, is that those documents don't contain any hyperlink, but acroread marks every URL-like text as an hyperlink. If that's the case, then this should be an ehancement request for Poppler instead.

P.S.: I've tried the same documents with Evince on another machine and I got the same results than with ePDFView.

[anonymous]

hm, strange.. in your pdfs the links work, but the region that i can use to click on to open a link is not extactly the region of the text. in most cases the clickable space is either much larger than the space the text takes or the clickable region is left of the text.

edit(before i send this): after loading the file in epdfview again, the regions are correct. weird.

maybe that is because of poppler 0.5.1, arch doesn't have 0.5.2 packages yet..

as for your langspec-3.0.pdf, i can't even open it. epdfview crashes with this output {{{(epdfview:15045): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `PopplerPage?'

(epdfview:15045): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed Segmentation fault}}} i opened another ticket for those crashes already..

btw, i just created a pdf in openoffice which only contains the text http://www.google.com and now it works, but before it didn't (before the last post i did exactly the same..) and the clickable region is the same as the text too.

[jordi]

I don't think this is a poppler version problem, as I also use version 0.5.1.

I saw the other ticket, don't know what it is yet. I'll test other files with hyperlinks and for the crashes.

Thanks for testing ePDFView :-)

[anonymous]

Ah - just read your blog and see that this is intended at some point. Maybe inappropriate to tack on here but I've realized that, in a flurry of 'tickets', I neglected to express my appreciationnike air yeezy for a wonderful target for an application. A simple modern PDF viewer with minimal dependencies and other requirements is a fantastic goal that I'm sure many, myself included, have wanted very much for a very long time. Thanks!