835674 - pdf.js: Links within some PDFs does not work even if I click them.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 793804

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, enhancement)

Description

[rshimazu]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130116072953

Steps to reproduce:

Please access to the following urls, and click the texts which start with "http://".

http://blog.summerwind.jp/download/jssm/slide.pdf#page=2
http://www.tsukaeru.net/lp/fx/TN_A4_FX_guide_ftl_110311.pdf#page=3
http://www.es.emb-japan.go.jp/download/Presentacion_400_JAPANESE.pdf
http://www.jpeds.or.jp/saisin/saisin_1101182.pdf#page=2




Actual results:

Nothing happens. No click event at all.


Expected results:

Links should work as Internet Explorer with Adobe Reader handles them as expected.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

It’s not a link in PDF.js, Okular, Evince.  Probably duplicate of bug 793804.

Comment 3

[rshimazu]

I do not think this is duplicate of bug 793804.
The urls in sample PDFs which I showed in #c0 are recognized as the links by Adobe Reader on IE. And I am not 100% sure if all those PDFs are made from MS WORD.

Comment 4

[rshimazu]

And the urls in sample PDFs which I showed are recognized as the links by Chrome PDF Viewer on Google Chrome.

Comment 5

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Although those PDFs are not made by Microsoft Word, it's common that they don't contain the URL annotation for those URLs. Perhaps Adobe Reader and Chrome PDF Viewer are converting a mere text string to a link if it looks like a URL.
TextLink add-on worked because PDF.js converts a PDF to an HTML.
https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/text-link/