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| | | Subject: Re: Adobe BUG in Reader 7 and 8 - max URI/URL length 233 characters ?! | Subject: Re: Adobe BUG in Reader 7 and 8 - max URI/URL length 233 characters ?! 2007-10-08 - By Harakiri
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Im wondering why nobody has replied to this issue yet
within the last week. Is nobody using URL Links in PDF
messages ?
Anyone from Adobe on this list who could point out the
issue to their own development team ?
I now have to create a service similary to tinyurl.com
to create redirects for URLs which are to long...
--- Harakiri <harakiri_23@(protected)> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i found out that Adobe introduced a bug with Reader
> 7
> and 8. Every URL annotation you create with more
> then
> 233 characters will produce a "error communicating
> with web-browser", the url you click within a PDF
> document will not be opened.
>
> This doesnt seem to be an itext issue as i can
> reproduce it with Acrobat 8 Professional.
>
> Just take the following example :
>
>
http://itext.ugent.be/library/com/lowagie/examples/objects/anchors/AHref.java
>
> and use an url longer then 233 characters.
>
> i.e. 234 characters :
>
>
http://www.google.com/search?q
=1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
>
> The link will open successfully in Adobe Reader 6
> but
> not in 7 and 8 - no matter what external Browser you
> use. I tested this on multiple machines with
> firefox/internet explorer as default browser - Adobe
> Reader always returned this error.
>
> I looked up the PDF Reference and there was no
> indication for a maximum URI length, which leads me
> to
> believe that this is Adobes fault not following
> their
> own standard.
>
> Anyone has any experience with this ?
>
>
>
>
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