Editor Export to PDF with embedded PDF Link

[Joe]

Hi,
I believe I have uncovered a bug, or a strange behavior that is not very intuitive...

I am exporting to PDF from the RadEditor. The exported PDF contains links to websites and online PDFs.
While the website links work just fine, links to PDFs (from inside the exported PDF) do not work. 

In Acrobat, you can inspect the link actions and see that www link actions are "Open a web link".
While link actions for PDFs are "Go to a page in another document". Then it has "Page1" as the source?

I was not able to find a way to change PDF link actions via the Telerik PDF export API. 

My workaround was to create a redirect page that would accept the PDF URL as a querystring, then redirect the users. 

I'm using Acrobat 10.x but other users were having the same problem. And I'm using Telerik.Web.UI.dll version 2011.1.413.35
Hope that helps!

[Daniel]

Hello Joe,

We managed to reproduce the problem. Our developers will investigate it the next week.
Will keep you posted.

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[Daniel]

Hello Joe,

Although this is an old thread, I must say we have not forgotten or abandoned this issue. Our developers found that the problem is related to all controls which support the PDF format, not only RadEditor. A temporary workaround would be to set the OpenInNewWindow property to false. Here is the link to the bug report. I would recommend that you vote for it to increase its priority.
Feedback Portal: PDF export does not parse HTML anchor tags properly when OpenInNewWindow property is set to true
Please excuse us for any inconvenience this may have caused to you.

Best regards,
Daniel
Telerik

 

 

[Joe]

Wow, I forgot all about this. Thanks for staying on it all this time. I have voted for the bug.

[Daniel]

Hello Joe,

We managed to fix the problem. You will be able to test the fix by downloading the latest internal build (which should be uploaded tomorrow) from your account.

Regards,
Daniel
Telerik

 

 

[ganesh]

hi,

The pdf is not exporting at the time of pdf having links.

can u plz solve my problem

[Ianko]

Hello,

Testing with this demo here (http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/import-export/pdf-export/defaultcs.aspx) links are exported fine. 

If you are using an old version of RadEditor, make sure to update it and test again.

If you still have issues with the exported PDF, please sent us a support ticket or open a new forum thread (as this is a two years old discussion) with more details about the exact scenario.

Regards,
Ianko
Telerik by Progress