Bug 334476

Summary: Cannot click on link in PDF when 'Text Selection' tool is active
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Jonas Lippuner <jonas>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: aacid
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.17.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jonas Lippuner 2014-05-07 17:53:48 UTC
When the 'Text Selection' tool is active, I cannot click on any hyperlinks in a PDF file (created with pdflatex and hyperref). This applies to internal PDF links and URLs. When selecting the 'Browse' tool, the links work.

This is a serious flaw in Okular as I usually want to have the Text Selection tool active so that I can copy text without having to click on another button first, but of course, I also want to be able to click on links without first having to switch to the Browse tool.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create PDF with links (e.g. citations or URLs) with pdflatex and hyperrref
2. Open PDF in Okular
3. Select 'Text Selection' tool
4. Try to click on a link in the PDF
Actual Results:  
Cannot click on any links. The mouse cursor doesn't even respond to hovering over a link (cursor remains I-beam instead of changing to link pointer).

Expected Results:  
The cursor should change form I-beam to link pointer when hovering over a link and then the link should be followed when clicked upon. This is the behavior that Okular correctly exhibits when using the 'Browse' tool.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-05-07 18:25:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 318078 ***