Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 15455
PDF Export: active hyperlinks, visited links
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
As described in issue 13021 and 13630, hyperlinks are exported only as formatted text in PDF. Additionally, the hyperlink text is blue (normal) or purple (if visited BEFORE the document was exported). This is not very useful.
So it is, a user might want to try the link and will be disappointed. Might be an interesting option "show text with hyperlinks without special formatting in PDF export" for issue 13154. I do not see this as a DEFECT, because the PDF should look as similar as possible like the original document. Rainer
Dublicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 12836 ***
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I am not sure whether this really is a duplicate: Stefan knows that the hyperlink function actually will not be transported to the PDF. As I see, he accepts that, but his problem is that the text with the hyperlink in the PDF will look like and pretends to be a hyperlink without being one. IMHO the reporter requested a possibility to display that text without hyperlink as "normal Text" in the PDF (and not blue / underlined). I remember that there is an option in the "Stylist" to adapt how hyperlinks should be displayed in the document (and so in the PDF), but that is not very flexible. Would you please think about this comment and then do what you think that it is senseful? Rainer
Even if it would actually be a hyperlink, its not usful to mark the text as "visited" (purple) when it was visited by the author(!) BEFORE he exported the document. to reproduce the effect: (1.1 RC3) - create a new text document - choose "insert -> hyperlink" from the menue - type a url (say "www.openoffice.org") as target - apply, close - click on the created hyperlink -> your browser opens the target -> THE LINK in the document TURNS PURPLE - export the document to pdf -> there is a PURPLE (wannabe-)hyperlink in the pdf The reader doesn't want to see that a link was visited by the author! Thats why i think its a defect, even if the hyperlinks in the pdf were implemented. Stefan
Reassigned to MMP
> The reader doesn't want to see that a link was visited by the author! > Thats why i think its a defect, even if the hyperlinks in the pdf were > implemented. Important hint!
goog comment. stay tuned. (I just changed the summary)
summary text changed
Yes, cf. http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/KickOffOct2003.sxw
MMP>CP: Thanks for taking over.
targeted for 8 according to http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/pdf_export/PDFExport.sxw
according to the announcement on releases (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=7503) this issue will be re-targeted to OOo Later.
*** Issue 32603 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
cp->fme: as discussed with Thorsten Ziehm and AMA, we try to smooth the rough edges in PDF export. It would be great if you could fix this one on CWS pdf02. Having a different style for visited hyperlinks makes absolutely no sense in a document that you exchange with others. Sorry for the late notice, this one slipt through, please let me know if this poses any problems.
Fixed in: /cvs/sw/sw/source/core/text/atrstck.cxx,v <-- atrstck.cxx new revision: 1.19.280.1; previous revision: 1.19
Ready for QA.
verified in cws pdf02
ok in src680m60
*** Issue 39619 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 78021 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This problem is still not resolved: A visited link is still exported in pdf in purple color. Reporting for 2.2.1 RC3.
But works for me with "2.2.0RC4 German version WIN XP: [680m14(Build9134)]"
Created attachment 45978 [details] Original is OK; but pdf shows "visited" color
I have attached a sample (this file was created by stripping the actual problematic document). In this file, the headers contain links top previous/next chapters. You can see that the visited links have turned brown in pdf; but they retain their original color in the original odt file! But I crosschecked this by creating a new odt file and converting it into pdf; and found no problems. (I tried to insert So I conclude that the problem is conditional; and somehow my sample file happens to trap that condition. But then the question is, what is this condition? :|
I have attached a sample (this file was created by stripping the actual problematic document). In this file, the headers contain links top previous/next chapters. You can see that the visited links have turned brown in pdf; but they retain their original color in the original odt file! But I crosschecked this by creating a new odt file and converting it into pdf; and found no problems. So I conclude that the problem is conditional; and somehow my sample file happens to trap that condition. But then the question is, what is this condition? :|
I also tested internal links in an own document - no problem with "2.2.0RC4 German version WIN XP: [680m14(Build9134)]": problem not reproducible. "TrialDoc.odt" from raindrops' test kit shows an other problem on my PC: visited links will not change colour. @raindrops: - your OS / Platform / OOo source are? - Can you reproduce the problem with 'rainerstestkit.zip'? - Can you reproduce the problem with an own document similar to "mynewtest.odt" - If not, any idea what might cause the problems with "TrialDoc.odt"?
Created attachment 45979 [details] Test kit, but I don't believe that it will bring new insight to 'comments from raindrops Sat Jun 16 03:46:32 +0000 2007'
raindrops -> rainerbielefeld Sorry-- Forgot to mention that part! Actually your observation is correct; and that is supposed to happen by design: I have set the font style as "Default" (with some additional modifications, such as bold+blue color). I didn't want my hyperlinks to be the traditional underlined blue. (In fact, the middle part of the header has yet another hyperlink, with RED color.) But that makes it worse: How can OOo provide an unintended format in a converted pdf? *** My PC: Win XP Sp-2 My OOo Version: when I reported this problem it was 2.2.1 RC3; but now it is dev2.3 SRC680_m216. Both versions have the same behavior. I cannot reproduce the problem with another fresh document. (I tried inserting the "modified default" hyperlink in various ways: text, table, in header and in a table in a header.) I had another problem with your sample: I changed format of your first link to blue, bold, non-underlined (like my document). That converted well into pdf. But then I changed the link color to green. If I convert this document into pdf, this link shows blue! (Did you mean this??) I am attaching the document...
Created attachment 45983 [details] Change the Link1 color, click and then convert to pdf!