Bug 166198 - PDF Export: Hyperlink as field content is not the same as normal link in PDF/A when viewed in Acrobat reader
Summary: PDF Export: Hyperlink as field content is not the same as normal link in PDF/...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Printing and PDF export (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: PDF-Export
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Reported: 2025-04-15 14:50 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Modified: 2025-04-15 14:51 UTC (History)
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Example file from Writer (13.29 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2025-04-15 14:50 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The exported file as PDF/A-2b (26.96 KB, application/pdf)
2025-04-15 14:50 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The exported file in Acrobat reader (43.81 KB, image/png)
2025-04-15 14:51 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The exported file in Acrobat reader after turning off RO mode (39.71 KB, image/png)
2025-04-15 14:51 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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Description Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-04-15 14:50:12 UTC
Created attachment 200346 [details]
Example file from Writer

Attached example file has a user field, whose text content is a hyperlink.
This is placed in the header of the document, and also inside a frame.
Next to it is a normal hyperlink.

When this is exported as PDF with PDF/A-2b enabled, and the resulting file opened in Acrobat Reader, the document is opened as RO, and only the normal hyperlink is clickable, not the one that comes from the user field.
If I remove the read-only protection from the file with the blue infobar in Acrobat, then the link from the user field also becomes clickable.

1. Open attached file
2. Export as PDF, enable the PDF/A-2b mode.
3. Open the resulting file in Acrobat Reader (with other readers like the one built into Firefox, this does not happen)
4. Notice the file opens as read only PDA/A
5. Try to click on the links
-> the ones for https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ don't work, the normal ones for https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/ work
6. Press Enable Editing on the blue infobar of Acrobat
-> Now the links to  https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ open in the browser

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 887ed47fbdb05a2cbbef5722859cdd3e7900b73c
CPU threads: 14; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (hu_HU); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

seems to be like this since 3.3, only with PDF/A-1
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-04-15 14:50:45 UTC
Created attachment 200347 [details]
The exported file as PDF/A-2b
Comment 2 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-04-15 14:51:09 UTC
Created attachment 200348 [details]
The exported file in Acrobat reader
Comment 3 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-04-15 14:51:44 UTC
Created attachment 200349 [details]
The exported file in Acrobat reader after turning off RO mode