[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
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