Links, Hyperlinks into a canvas using PDF.js

Question

I\'m using the PDF.js library to render a pdf into the canvas. That pdf has hyperlinks in there, The PDF.js library is drawing the pdf into the canvas but the hyperlinks don\'t

Answer 1

Here is a fiddle that shows you how to enable annotations (including hyperlinks) in PDF files. The original PDF file used in the fiddle is here.

I used viewer code (web/page_view.js,web/viewer.css) as refrence to write this fiddle.

HTML:

CSS:

body {
    font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif;
}
.pdf-content {
    border: 1px solid #000000;
}
.annotationLayer > a {
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
}
.annotationLayer > a:hover {
    opacity: 0.2;
    background: #ff0;
    box-shadow: 0px 2px 10px #ff0;
}
.annotText > div {
    z-index: 200;
    position: absolute;
    padding: 0.6em;
    max-width: 20em;
    background-color: #FFFF99;
    box-shadow: 0px 2px 10px #333;
    border-radius: 7px;
}
.annotText > img {
    position: absolute;
    opacity: 0.6;
}
.annotText > img:hover {
    opacity: 1;
}
.annotText > div > h1 {
    font-size: 1.2em;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
    margin: 0px;
}

JavaScript:

PDFJS.workerSrc = 'http://seikichi.github.io/tmp/PDFJS.0.8.715/pdf.min.worker.js';

$(function () {
  var pdfData = loadPDFData();

  PDFJS.getDocument(pdfData).then(function (pdf) {
    return pdf.getPage(1);
  }).then(function (page) {
    var scale = 1;
    var viewport = page.getViewport(scale);
    var $canvas = $('#the-canvas');
    var canvas = $canvas.get(0);
    var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
    canvas.height = viewport.height;
    canvas.width = viewport.width;

    var $pdfContainer = $("#pdfContainer");
    $pdfContainer.css("height", canvas.height + "px")
      .css("width", canvas.width + "px");

    var renderContext = {
      canvasContext: context,
      viewport: viewport
    };
    page.render(renderContext);
    setupAnnotations(page, viewport, canvas, $('.annotationLayer'));
  });

  function setupAnnotations(page, viewport, canvas, $annotationLayerDiv) {
    var canvasOffset = $(canvas).offset();
    var promise = page.getAnnotations().then(function (annotationsData) {
      viewport = viewport.clone({
        dontFlip: true
      });

      for (var i = 0; i < annotationsData.length; i++) {
        var data = annotationsData[i];
        var annotation = PDFJS.Annotation.fromData(data);
        if (!annotation || !annotation.hasHtml()) {
          continue;
        }

        var element = annotation.getHtmlElement(page.commonObjs);
        data = annotation.getData();
        var rect = data.rect;
        var view = page.view;
        rect = PDFJS.Util.normalizeRect([
          rect[0],
          view[3] - rect[1] + view[1],
          rect[2],
          view[3] - rect[3] + view[1]]);
        element.style.left = (canvasOffset.left + rect[0]) + 'px';
        element.style.top = (canvasOffset.top + rect[1]) + 'px';
        element.style.position = 'absolute';

        var transform = viewport.transform;
        var transformStr = 'matrix(' + transform.join(',') + ')';
        CustomStyle.setProp('transform', element, transformStr);
        var transformOriginStr = -rect[0] + 'px ' + -rect[1] + 'px';
        CustomStyle.setProp('transformOrigin', element, transformOriginStr);

        if (data.subtype === 'Link' && !data.url) {
          // In this example,  I do not handle the `Link` annotations without url.
          // If you want to handle those annotations, see `web/page_view.js`.
          continue;
        }
        $annotationLayerDiv.append(element);
      }
    });
    return promise;
  }
});

function loadPDFData() {
  /*jshint multistr: true */
  var base64pdfData = '...'; //should contain base64 representing the PDF

  function base64ToUint8Array(base64) {
    var raw = atob(base64);
    var uint8Array = new Uint8Array(new ArrayBuffer(raw.length));
    for (var i = 0, len = raw.length; i < len; ++i) {
      uint8Array[i] = raw.charCodeAt(i);
    }
    return uint8Array;
  }
  return base64ToUint8Array(base64pdfData);
}