[reportlab-users] Using Anchor tags with 'target' - any chance ?

[reportlab at richardshea.fastmail.fm]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:01:53 +0100, "Robin Becker" <robin at reportlab.com>
said:

> reportlab at richardshea.fastmail.fm wrote:

> > Hi - I'm building a PDF with anchor tags like this ...

> > 

> > def buildAnchor(strAssociatedText, strLiteral="EDIT",

> > strURL="http://www.forbar.co.nz/"):

> > 	strAnchor = '''<a target='_parent' href='%s'color="red">%s</a>''' % (strURL, strLiteral)

> > 	strOut = "%s [%s]" % (strAssociatedText, strAnchor) 

> > 	return strOut

> > 

> > ... everything was fine until I added the target='_parent' bit and now I

> > get ...

> > 

> > C:\bin\installed\Python2.5\lib\site-packages\reportlab\platypus\paragraph.py:548:

> > DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated

> >   % (_parser.errors[0],text[:min(30,len(text))])

> > 

> > ... which given that the use of the target attribute doesn't seem to be

> > documented is fair enough. I just thought I would double check though as

> > the error message seems a bit weird and .... I need this pretty badly

> > ;-)

> > 

> > I'm displaying the PDF from within an IFrame on a HTML page; the links

> > embedded in the PDF need to be able to get the user out of the IFrame -

> > hence my interest in the target attribute (which as far I know is the

> > only way to get out of IFrame).

> > 

> > thanks

> > 

> > Richard.

> .......

> target is unsupported because it is a pure html concept ie the window in

> which 

> to open the document. When you click on an http protocol link in PDF it

> uses 

> your browser to open the document, parent top etc are probably not

> relevant.

> -- 


OK thanks for the info. Unfortunately I'm displaying the PDF within an
IFrame and clicking on a link embedded in the PDF results in the target
page also opening in the IFrame - not what I had intended ! Never mind I
will find another way around it. Thanks again for your help.

R.