external link only clickable if text is url

[inikhil24]

Hello,

I am currently using wkhtmltopdf to do a basic conversion from html to pdf, below is the sample html code

1) <a href="www.google.com">Go To Google</a> // produces unclickable link
2) <a href="www.google.com">www.google.com</a> // produces clickable link for www.google.com
3) <a href="www.google.com">www.yahoo.com</a> // produces clickable link for www.yahoo.com

is this the expected behavior or something is wrong here?
how do we make the first option workable?
I'm using wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.4 and on Linux Mint 18.

Thanks,
Nikhil

[Tomsgu]

You're missing https:// in your href attribute. The link is clickable, but it points to file /www.google.com.

Note that 0.12.2.4 is quite old now.

[inikhil24]

out.pdf
following html produces a unclickable Go to Google link

<a href="https://www.google.com">Go to Google</a>

[Tomsgu]

Most likely it's because of an old version. Can you try to update to 0.12.5 https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html? I cannot reproduce the issue in a new version.

[inikhil24]

Thanks for the help, version update did solved the issue.
can you point me where i can download the latest executable of wkhtmltopdf?
Thanks.

[Tomsgu]

Good to hear that. There is no executable for 0.12.5 due to problems in: #3001. There is also an issue where you can find more information about it wkhtmltopdf/packaging#8

[giorni]

This is still an issue. I am using version 0.12.5 with Debian 9, downloaded directly from website. I have https links and when I use something not as the link itself for the content text, it is not clickable. It does style the text as a link though, with with blue color and underline.

[giorni]

My bad. It is not a problem with wkhtmltopdf. I generate pages separated and then I merge using GhostScript. Links stop working only after merge. More details can be found here, for reference.

[rajeshkr7]

@inikhil24 , I am using the latest version (0.12.6) but it still not working for me.
Issue

can you put your code or any change that you have made ?

Thanks