How to insert hyperlink in footer ?

[Cosyspro]

Hello Syncfusion's team,

I used the following code to insert hyperlink in footer :

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 PdfPageTemplateElement footer = new PdfPageTemplateElement(bounds);

PdfFont fontPied = new PdfStandardFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 8);

PdfBrush brush = new PdfSolidBrush(Syncfusion.Drawing.Color.Black);

///Hyperlink My WebSite

//Create the Text Web Link.

PdfTextWebLink textLink = new PdfTextWebLink();

//Set the hyperlink

textLink.Url = "http://www.mywebsite.com/";

//Set the link text

textLink.Text = "Click here to visit my web site";

//Set the font

 textLink.Font = fontPied;

//Draw the hyperlink in PDF page

textLink.DrawTextWebLink(footer.Graphics, new Syncfusion.Drawing.PointF(0, 20));

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But the last instruction < > generates the following exception:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at Syncfusion.Pdf.Interactive.PdfTextWebLink.DrawTextWebLink (Syncfusion.Pdf.Graphics.PdfGraphics graphics, Syncfusion.Drawing.PointF location) [0x000ea] in <023cea152c704135bf5c2f86c6cf38b2>:0

Regards

[Anantha Gokula Raman Jeyaraman]

Hi Cosypro,

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support.

Using Syncfusion Essential PDF, we can’t add hyperlinks directly on header, footer and template, instead you can draw the contents in header/footer/template graphics separately and then add a URI annotation to the same location where header/footer/template content is drawn.

Kindly use the following code snippet for reference,

PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument();

PdfPage pdfPage = pdfDocument.Pages.Add();

RectangleF bounds = new RectangleF(0, 0, pdfDocument.Pages[0].GetClientSize().Width, 50);

string text = "Click here to visit my web site";

//Add the footer content.

PdfPageTemplateElement footer = new PdfPageTemplateElement(bounds);

PdfFont fontPied = new PdfStandardFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 8);

footer.Graphics.DrawString(text, fontPied, PdfBrushes.Black, new PointF(0, 0));

pdfDocument.Template.Bottom = footer;

//Measure the text width.

SizeF textSize = fontPied.MeasureString(text);

//Add the URI annotation to the page on the footer location.

RectangleF rect = new RectangleF(0, pdfPage.GetClientSize().Height, textSize.Width, textSize.Height);

PdfUriAnnotation uriAnnotation = new PdfUriAnnotation(rect, "http://www.mywebsite.com/");

uriAnnotation.Border.Width = 0;

pdfPage.Annotations.Add(uriAnnotation);

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance.

Regards,

Anantha Gokula Raman J