[Interest] Links in PDF printed from QTextDocument

Josh jnfo-d at grauman.com
Mon Apr 13 08:47:19 CEST 2020


On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, Josh wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Interest wrote:
>
>>  This should "just work". Are the links correctly inserted in the document?
>>  Does it work if you use document->print() and print directly on a PDF?
>>
>>  HTH,
>
> Thanks, that does help.
>
> I was making a silly mistake. I am able to make external links work now. I'm 
> still having trouble with internal links to other parts of the PDF though.
>
> If I use myCursor->insertHtml("<a href=\"#link\">click link</a>") to insert, 
> I get a link, but it won't scroll to other parts of the document linked with:
>
> <a name="link"></a> OR
>
> <span id="link">Text here</span> also didn't work.
>
> (I'm assuming span id isn't part of the supported HTML subset, didn't see it 
> say it was supported)
>
> Okular and Chrome both recognize the <a href> as a link. Okular opens dolphin 
> when I click it and Chrome does nothing.
>
> What am I missing?

Also, FYI, when I export the document to html, the internal and external 
linking both work. But when I print to PDF, the link is there but doesn't 
work with either okular or chrome... If anyone gets internal linking in a 
PDF printed from a qtextdocument let me know. TIA

Josh


More information about the Interest mailing list