On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:37:33 pm John King wrote: > McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > > upscope [mailto:[email protected]] asked: > >> Trying to find document or how to that describes how to embed > >> a link in writer > >> to Kmail, so a user can send an email to the address in the > >> document. The > >> document will be sent as a PDF. I know it should be doable, > >> PDF documents I > >> receive have this and work fine. > >> > >> I read the section in the documentation about hyperlinks and > >> I think I have it > >> set up right, but it does not get to the email program. In > >> the document I have > >> email: [email protected] and when I hold the mouse over it I see: > >> > >> mailto:[email protected]?subject=newsletter Input > >> > >> xxxxx is receivers email name. > >> > >> Doing ctrl click as described in doc. does nothing. I sure > >> I'm missing some > >> parameter to tell writer to use kmail but I cannot find it. > > > > Someone else will need to tell you specifics, but, is kmail set as your > > system-default mail application? I'm pretty sure that's how it's usually > > done with mailto: links. You don't invoke a specific mailer because not > > everybody who receives your document will necessarily be using the same > > mail reader. Instead, you invoke the default mailer and the system > > figures out which one to launch (if it has a default to work with). > > > > > > - Kevin > > I would agree that that is how it's supposed to work, but I have the same > problem as the original poster: mailto links in a writer document (or calc > or impress) simply do not call up kmail. I have confirmed that kmail is > set as the default; I have even run the gnome configuration editor in kde > to do the same, but kmail is not evoked by a ctrl-click on a mailto > hyperlink. > > However, if the writer document is saved either as an html or pdf document, > then the mailto links evoke kmail without problem from the application that > opens them (firefox and acroread in my case, though konqueror and okular > work equally well). > > Curiously, when I installed Thunderbird, then the mailto hyperlinks in > writer/calc/impress opened in Thunderbird without me doing anything - even > though kmail was set as my default client! > I checked all suggestions so far. My Kmail is set as default. If I open file __> send document as PDF it works, If I open a PDF (one I received) document in Okular with link it opens the kmail composer.
If I export the document that I built in writer, then open the pdf in Ockular, the hyperlink (mailto:) works as it should and brings up the kmail composer , who its to and subject are correct. It appears to be a writer issue. I will check bugzilla and see if there is a ticket. Thanks for yours and everyone else's inputs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
