Inkscape does not import hyperlinks from PDF

Bug #944874 reported by Christopher Yeleighton
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned
inkscape (openSUSE)
Won't Fix
High

Bug Description

Portable documents can contain hyperlinks attached to regions in the document
and vector drawings can contain hyperlinks attached to items in the drawing.
Inkscape imports drawings from portable documents but it loses the hyperlinks
in the process.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  1. Tell Inkscape to import the Inkscape.pdf.
  2. Examine the hyperlink on the text box "INKSCAPE".

Actual Results:
  2. No hyperlink.

Expected Results:
  2. <URL: http://inkscape.org/ >

Name : inkscape
Version : 0.48.2
Release : 2.1.2
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon Jan 16 22:18:09 2012
Group : Productivity/Graphics/Vector Editors
Size : 61848048
License : GPLv2 ; LGPLv2.1
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Sun Oct 30 05:19:19 2011, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : inkscape-0.48.2-2.1.2.src.rpm
Build Date : Sun Oct 30 05:09:09 2011
Build Host : build31
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : http://www.inkscape.org/
Summary : Vector Illustration Program
Description :
Inkscape is a vector illustration program for the GNOME desktop.
Distribution: openSUSE 12.1

Tags: importing pdf
Revision history for this message
In , Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2

Portable documents can contain hyperlinks attached to regions in the document and vector drawings can contain hyperlinks attached to items in the drawing. Inkscape imports drawings from portable documents but it loses the hyperlinks in the process.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  1. Tell Inkscape to import the Inkscape.pdf.
  2. Examine the hyperlink on the text box "INKSCAPE".

Actual Results:
  2. No hyperlink.

Expected Results:
  2. <URL: http://inkscape.org/ >

Revision history for this message
In , Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=479195)
test document

Revision history for this message
Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj) wrote :
Revision history for this message
In , Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj) wrote :

Bug created for upstream.

Changed in inkscape (openSUSE):
importance: Unknown → High
status: Unknown → Won't Fix
jazzynico (jazzynico)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: importing pdf
removed: hyperlink import portable
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