[Qgis-user] Possibility for Labels as Hyperlinks in PDF Output?

[Mike Treglia]

Thanks, Em,
That's a great suggestion! It seems like it might have broader utility, so
will definitely file a feature request in GitHub.
Best,
Mike

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 9:38 PM Emma Hain <emma at north-road.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike
> I've done a search for a feature request for this for QGIS.
> <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues>
> I can't see anything, I see similar things but not actually what you are
> asking. You may want to include this as a new feature request as it is
> kinda cool.
>
> Cheers
> Em
>
> On Tue, 12 Sept 2023 at 04:57, Mike Treglia via QGIS-User <
> qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Keith, for pointing me to that documentation.
>>
>> That's really helpful. I guess I had gotten confused with some
>> functionality with web-map exports in  QGIS2Web - leaflet maps - in that
>> form, a field with an html-formatted hyperlink would function as a
>> hyperlink (though a hyperlink label still just seems to be formatted as a
>> link, but not function as one.)
>>
>> I also see that in the Print Composer, manually using the "Add Label"
>> functionality enables one to include html-formatted hyperlinks, which
>> function in exported PDFs (when "render as html" is checked in the label
>> properties in the print composer).  So, it looks like there is almost the
>> functionality I'm looking for, but not quite.  If there's a way to place
>> labels from a map layer in a print composer in the right spots, that could
>> potentially work, but that seems challenging - I can't wrap my brain around
>> how that would functionally even work.
>>
>> Welcome any other ideas folks have, or how others have worked through
>> this.  It seems like the alternative options to doing this fully in QGIS
>> would involve exporting the PDF and working in PDF-editing software to
>> incorporate the links.
>>
>> Best,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 11:10 AM Keith Jenkins <kgjenkins at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think the label "HTML formatting" currently supports links.
>>> The supported HTML is just a subset of HTML, mainly focused on visual
>>> styles:
>>>
>>> """
>>> The HTML formatting option enables the proper rendering of some HTML
>>> tags to customize the label. The supported HTML tags are:
>>>
>>> * Color, applicable to text, underline, strikethrough, and overline
>>> * Font properties (font family, font size, bold and italic)
>>> * Superscript and subscript components in text
>>> """
>>>
>>> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/style_library/label_settings.html#text-tab
>>>
>>> Keith
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 9:28 AM Mike Treglia via QGIS-User
>>> <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > Working on a project where the desired output is PDF map, where the
>>> labels are hyperlinks. From searching around, it seems like there are, at
>>> least historically, some challenges related to this functionality and Qt,
>>> which might still be present?
>>> >
>>> > I'm finding that in the Print Composer in QGIS, I can add a label that
>>> functions as a hyperlink in an exported PDF (using the "render as HTML"
>>> functionality"), but labels associated with a layer, placed in the main map
>>> window, do not function as hyperlinks when exported as a PDF.
>>> >
>>> > Thus, wanted to check if maybe either I'm missing something - like
>>> this is/should be possible, or if not directly, maybe there's an efficient
>>> work-around?  I'm working in QGIS 3.32-2 most immediately for testing this,
>>> on Windows.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks, all, for any insights!
>>> > Mike
>>> >
>>> >
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