Hello,

i found out that Adobe introduced a bug with Reader 7
and 8. Every URL annotation you create with more then
233 characters will produce a "error communicating
with web-browser", the url you click within a PDF
document will not be opened.

This doesnt seem to be an itext issue as i can
reproduce it with Acrobat 8 Professional.

Just take the following example :

http://itext.ugent.be/library/com/lowagie/examples/objects/anchors/AHref.java

and use an url longer then 233 characters.

i.e. 234 characters : 

http://www.google.com/search?q=11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

The link will open successfully in Adobe Reader 6 but
not in 7 and 8 - no matter what external Browser you
use. I tested this on multiple machines with
firefox/internet explorer as default browser - Adobe
Reader always returned this error.

I looked up the PDF Reference and there was no
indication for a maximum URI length, which leads me to
believe that this is Adobes fault not following their
own standard.

Anyone has any experience with this ?


       
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