Create a link

[diogoAntunes]

Is it possible to in the same paragraph put a link to some url, for example:

'Lorem ipsum http://www.google.com some more text'

and google be a link to the page in some other colour?

[diogoAntunes]

For anyone who had the same question, this is the answer:

text: [
'This ',
{ text: 'is', color: 'green' },
' the first ',
{ text: 'paragraph', color: 'red' }
]
},

[WishMaster2310]

where is the link code in you solution?

[jthoenes]

There is no support for clickable links in pdfmake yet, sorry.

[sc-03]

Hello first of all: Thanks 1000xtimes for this great library. It is fun to work with and clearly structured and many examples - thanks!

Regarding the links: How much effort would it be to integrate links in pdfmake? Links could be done automatically, as soon as the parser detects an URL or an E-Mailaddress, e.g. http://www.google.com - as far as I understand, the underlying pdfKit-Library supports linking, i.e. annotations: http://pdfkit.org/docs/annotations.html, e.g. link(20, 0, width, height, 'http://google.com/') - in which source file of the library the links should go in?
Thanks again!

[jthoenes]

Hi @sc-03,

you need to extend the layoutBuilder.js - best to extend the processLeaf method to handle dd like this:

var dd = {content: [{text: 'Google', link: 'http://google.com/'}]};

To actually write the link to the pdf, you need to also extend the renderLine in printer.js. Unfortunately we are not using pdfkit for writing the text - but you should be able to use the mentioned link function.

Let me know if you need more.

[sc-03]

Hi back

Thanks a lot for your fast reply! This makes sense and I will give it a try as soon as I have time (I hope that I do not have to make too much research on this topic, it doesn't seem straightforward to annotate a pdf) - at the moment, there is no pressure for us on this feature but I wanted to be prepared if customers wants to have it (and they will, I am sure ...). Thanks again!

[bpampuch]

merged :)

[arieljake]

@bpampuch are links working? I tried to add link: '...' to a text node in the playground and it didn't work.

[exequeryphil]

@bpampuch Hi, are links currently working? Can you add a usage note in the docs? Do I have to use particular package in order to get this to work? I'm using bower.