Im wondering why nobody has replied to this issue yet within the last week. Is nobody using URL Links in PDF messages ?
Anyone from Adobe on this list who could point out the issue to their own development team ? I now have to create a service similary to tinyurl.com to create redirects for URLs which are to long... --- Harakiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ? > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small > Business gives you all the tools to get online. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio > 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: > http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
