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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 Leonard Rosenthol
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As far as we can tell here, the problem is NOT Acrobat but the
Windows OS and your browser of choice.
Trying this on Mac OS X or with different browser (aka other than IE
6) or with Vista yield no such problems.
Leonard Rosenthol
Adobe Systems
On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:25 AM, Harakiri wrote:
> 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=11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
> 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
> 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
>>
>> 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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