Linking a Table of Contents page to sections of the PDF

[romucci]

I am creating a separate Table of Contents page that is bundled inside the PDF which has link tags as:

<a href="#sectionInPDF">
   Go to Section
</a>

and then adding an a tag with the target , which also gets embedded in the PDF

<a name="sectionInPDF">You should arrive here</a>

when saving the PDF file, it doesn't go the section as expected, it opens up a tab in the browser with the anchor tag.

[cablegunmaster]

https://bunchoblokes.org/pdf/General-Documents/BOB-Manual.pdf#page=4 Well for the A href + links its not the same as HTML. I check online and see this goes like: "#page=" This is the best way to refer to a page number.

[romucci]

@cablegunmaster The main issue is that it any anchor tag sends me to a new tab, not to an element target inside the PDF

[jxmot]

@romucci I've found the same issue. All anchor links are incorrect. They're rendered with the base URI preceding the #.

But that's not all.... It appears that all links <a> are broken.

[suhoy]

@romucci it may happened if you set base url before converting to pdf

converterProperties.setBaseUri(baseUrl); HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(html, target, converterProperties);

[WISEFREAKZ]

@romucci Did you find a solution to this? Thanks in advance!