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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 ?! 2007-10-09 - By Harakiri
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Thanks Leonard,
in other words - you admit that Adobe introduced a Bug
in Reader 7 and 8 which hasnt been fixed yet, since in
Adobe Reader 6 and below it worked fine...?
Regards
--- Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@(protected)> wrote:
> We have many bugs in our software (I hope that
> doesn't shock anyone)
> and we don't put out public information about any of
> them...Why would
> you expect this particular item to merit such
> treatment. To be
> honest, you are the first one to report it out of
> the MILLIONS of
> users of Acrobat & Reader and as such it's not a
> high priority item.
>
> Leonard
>
> On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Harakiri wrote:
>
> > First off, it seems you acknowledge that there is
> > indeed a problem but havent made a technote yet or
> any
> > public information regarding this bug ?
> >
> > Second, the problem occurs on any windows browser
> > (opera, mozilla, internet explorer). I dont know
> what
> > test combination you had but on any WinXP SP2
> machine
> > with either mozilla, opera or IE as default
> browser
> > the error occurs..
> >
> > Furthermore the error does NOT occure with Adobe
> > Reader 6 - how can it be a Windows Problem if it
> works
> > in Adobe 6 and below on the same machine but not
> with
> > Adobe 7 and Adobe 8 ? This is definitly a bug in
> Adobe
> > Reader not in windows.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@(protected)>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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