Thanks for now supporting links :)
... but it works good enough only for "external" links, and not as good for
"local" ones, referring to places inside in the same pdf
... doing so, the link GENERATED will not work at all (i.e. not very
clickable) while viewing the PDF file in FireFox
(In reply to o.parhizkari from comment #44)
> Thanks for now supporting links :)
> ... but it works good enough only for "external" links, and not as good for
> "local" ones, referring to places inside in the same pdf
Yes, we know. You can try setting
(In reply to Tom Schuster [:evilpie] from comment #42)
> Should this get a release-note?
I think so. I added "Print to PDF now produces working hyperlinks"
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Title:
Printing to PDF file loses URLs/links
Status in Mozilla Thunderbird:
Fix Released
Cannot print when the link uses `display: contents`.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1.open `data:text/html,http://a.b.c; style="display:
contents">link`
2.print as PDF
related chromium issue:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1160139==4
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https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5d1efa61543d
Pushed by j...@mozilla.com:
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Add a Link() method to DrawTarget, and implement it in DrawTargetCairo.
r=jrmuizel
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d23a00ef79ac
Support Link in DrawTargetRecording and playback. r=jrmuizel
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Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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Title:
Printing to PDF file loses URLs/links
Status
Created attachment 9220043
Bug 454059 - Add [minimal] tag support to cairo-quartz-surface.c. r?jrmuizel
This implements a subset of the tag() function on the quartz surface backend;
just enough to support generating links in PDF output. In particular, the
only tag type supported is Link, and we
Created attachment 9220045
Bug 454059 - Generate hyperlinks in PDF output for HTML link elements. r?mstange
Depends on D114207
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Created attachment 9220571
Bug 454059 - Add a new PaintForPrinting display list builder mode. r?mstange
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Title:
Printing to
Created attachment 9220044
Bug 454059 - Add a LINK display-item type. r?mstange
Depends on D114206
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Title:
Printing to PDF
Created attachment 9220042
Bug 454059 - Support Link in DrawTargetRecording and playback. r?jrmuizel
Depends on D113774
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Status: Confirmed => In Progress
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Title:
Printing to PDF file loses URLs/links
Status in
With the cairo update in bug 739096, the functions `cairo_tag_begin` and
`cairo_tag_end` become available, which can be used (with the "Link" tag
type) to generate links in PDF output.
There are two ways to use this. One approach is to issue
`cairo_tag_begin` with an associated URL, then do some
Created attachment 9219175
Bug 454059 - Add a Link() method to DrawTarget, and implement it in
DrawTargetCairo. r?jrmuizel
This provides a basic Link() API on DrawTarget, intended to generate a link
for a single rectangular area (which will be the rect of a frame corresponding
to a link
This bug makes Firefox less attractive to business. Not that I care, but
maybe the Firefox team does?
Also it forces me to start Chrome again and again, and it's the only
reason I ever have for starting Chrome.
+1 for a fix!
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Title:
Printing to PDF file loses URLs/links
Status in Mozilla
+1
I just don't want to have to admit chrome is better just because of
that.
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Title:
Printing to PDF file loses URLs/links
I got a question on chat about using SkiaPDF instead of cairo for this
and I might as well add what info I have here.
SkiaPDF does indeed [have functionality to
annotate](https://github.com/google/skia/blob/c0bd9f9fe533a7b8644392240c1250195aaee537/include/core/SkAnnotation.h)
the PDFs in
Yes, please; let's get back to the core issue. The Firefox print
function does not save functioning hyperlinks when the output is PDF. I
dislike having to switch to Chromium (I use Linux) to create a PDF with
functioning hyperlinks. Can we please get Firefox to create a PDF with
hyperlinks that
(In reply to Conway from comment #24)
> Sure, someone might decide to take a PDF and ink it onto a physical page, but
> *until then* the expectation is that hyperlinks will work.
When using a PDF export feature within an application, yes. But this
bug ticket is about the scenario that all the
(In reply to Stewart Gordon from comment #23)
> I disagree. To "strip hyperlinks of their functionality while retaining
> their styling", as you put it, is equally what happens when printing to
> paper.
But PDF isn't paper, it's a purgatory between electronic and print
media.
Sure, someone
(In reply to Stewart Gordon from comment #25)
> (In reply to Conway from comment #24)
> > Sure, someone might decide to take a PDF and ink it onto a physical page,
> > but *until then* the expectation is that hyperlinks will work.
>
> When using a PDF export feature within an application, yes.
(In reply to kaz from comment #16)
> If you're not going to make it work, the least you could do is not fake the
> appearance, you know? Would it be difficult to pop up a dialog box or
> something?
I'm sympathetic to where you're coming from, but this bug is filed
against the platform code and
(In reply to kaz from comment #22)
> (In reply to Stewart Gordon from comment #21)
> > (In reply to kaz from comment #16)
> > > The document is rendered such that the links look like links: they are
> > > rendered in blue, and underlined.
> >
> > This is handled by CSS. In order to not have
(In reply to Stewart Gordon from comment #21)
> (In reply to kaz from comment #16)
> > The document is rendered such that the links look like links: they are
> > rendered in blue, and underlined.
>
> This is handled by CSS. In order to not have links highlighted, there would
> need to be a CSS
(In reply to kaz from comment #16)
> One issue here is that the output is deceptive.
>
> The document is rendered such that the links look like links: they are
> rendered in blue, and underlined.
This is handled by CSS. In order to not have links highlighted, there
would need to be a CSS rule
(In reply to Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] from comment #19)
> FWIW cairo has [functionality for creating
> links](https://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Tags-and-Links.html) as of
> v1.16, but it looks like the in-tree cairo is too old (v1.9.5).
I suspect it wouldn't be too difficult to port that
FWIW cairo has [functionality for creating
links](https://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Tags-and-Links.html)
as of v1.16, but it looks like the in-tree cairo is too old (v1.9.5).
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(In reply to s.parsons from comment #17)
> There doesn't seem to be an elegant way to +1 here... So consider this my +1.
Bugzilla has a voting feature. If you open the 'Details' panel you
should see it.
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There doesn't seem to be an elegant way to +1 here... So consider this
my +1.
It's easy enough to switch over to Safari or Chrome to create the pdfs,
but I'd much rather not have to leave Firefox to do this.
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One issue here is that the output is deceptive.
The document is rendered such that the links look like links: they are
rendered in blue, and underlined.
I was fooled by this and sent a document to someone without actually
trying the links.
If you're not going to make it work, the least you
Has anyone found a workaround for this now 11 year old ticket?
I am in need of this feature and don't want to have to hop back to
chrome just for this. I am making academic journal article templates
for pdf printing using the paged.js library so this feature is very
important to us! Linking
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Voting up this very useful (missing) feature.
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Title:
Printing to PDF file loses URLs/links
Status in Mozilla Thunderbird:
*** Bug 1538487 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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(In reply to steve-_- from comment #11)
> (In reply to steve-_- from comment #10)
>
> > Noticed that when saving as pdf on macOS via print dialog, links are intact
> > when using Firefox 66.0b6. Has this bug been fixed?
>
> Sorry, excuse the noise, it's just that URLs are clickable. But links
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Thanks for the update, Colan.
Have a great day!
:)
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Resetting status as still not fixed upstream.
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Hello Colan,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird.
You made this bug report in 2016 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu
and Thunderbird since then.
Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the
ticket?
If it is
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The earlier upstream bug was marked as a duplicate. This is the new
confirmed one.
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #454059
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454059
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Status: Unknown => New
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Public bug reported:
Steps to reproduce:
1. File -> Print...
2. Select "Print to File".
3. Enter the file name.
4. Enter the save-to folder.
5. Leave the output format as-is, or select PDF if it's not the default.
6. Hit the Print button.
7. Open the resulting PDF in any PDF viewer.
Actual
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