Bug 160176 - Nothing happens when I click on a hyperlink in a PDF file
Summary: Nothing happens when I click on a hyperlink in a PDF file
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xpdf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ngo Than
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaske...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-12 20:13 UTC by Robin Green
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-06-13 08:08:09 UTC

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Description Robin Green 2005-06-12 20:13:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
I am running xpdf embedded in firefox using mozplugger. Nothing happens when I
click on a hyperlink in a PDF file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xpdf-3.00-18

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install mozplugger
2. Go to URL http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaskell/paper.pdf
3. Go to page 3
4. Click on first link in footnote
  
Actual results:
Nothing happens

Expected results:
Firefox should go to the link, either in this window or in a new window.

Additional info:
firefox-1.0.4-4
mozplugger-1.7.1-4
Comment 1 Ngo Than 2005-06-13 08:08:09 UTC 
it's now fixed in xpdf-3_00-20. It will be available in rawhide soon.
If you want a quick fix, just change the line

 urlCommand "htmlview '%s'"

in your current /etc/xpdfrc. 
Thanks for your report.
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