Bug#95086: pdftex bug in hyperlinks across page boundaries and footnotes

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

severity 95086 wishlist
forwarded 95086 pdftex@tug.org
tags 95086 + upstream
stop

On 24.04.01 Marko Mäkelä (msmakela@tcs.hut.fi) wrote:

Hi,

yes, it's long time ago: http://bugs.debian.org/95086

> This seems to be a bug in pdftex, since also the following pdflatex
> input causes buggy output:
> 
> \documentclass[a5paper]{article}
> \usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
> \begin{document}
> abc\footnote{def}\hyperlink{ghi}{jkl\newpage mno}
> \vskip 30ex
> \hypertarget{ghi}{pqrs}
> \end{document}
> 
> In this output, "abc" is coloured although it shouldn't, "mno" is
> not coloured, although it should be, and the footnote text "def"
> acts as a hyperlink, although it shouldn't.
> 
It's not a bug but rather a missing feature of pdfTeX. Current
workaround:

\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{pdfcolmk}

both packages are contained in teTeX 2.0. I'm lowering severity to
wishlist.

Regards,
  H.
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