kpdf and okular print links with red borders

[Sisyphe]

Binary package hint: kdegraphics

When I print a pdf file that includes hyperlinks, these links are printed in a red rectangle by kpdf.
I realize that those red borders are there to indicate that it is a link but what's the point of that on a printed page ?
If I am to be told that this is not a bug but a feature, may I just say that it didn't show this behaviour in the past and that at least there
should be an option to disable it. (There is an option to display those borders or not on screen but I didn't find any to disable them on paper).

The pdf I have is created by latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf and the latex file uses the hyperref package with option dvips.

I consider this is a bug in kpdf (and not latex or whatever) because it didn't happen in previous versions of kpdf and it doesn't happen with xpdf.

My version of kpdf : 4:3.5.7-1ubuntu6 (gutsy).

[Sisyphe (verslenet-buntu)]

Could it be related to poppler ?
I noticed on http://forum.kubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=157989 that other people experience the same annoying behaviour with evince.

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

I can confirm this bug. Other PDF viewers like Acrobat Reader and XPDF behave correctly and do not print any border around links.

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

bugs.kde.org has the bug as well:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145907

[Sisyphe (verslenet-buntu)]

I would like to insist on the fact that those red borders appear on documents that have been created with that purpose (for instance when the user creates the pdf using latex and the hyperref package). The creator of the pdf wanted red borders around links to identify them as such and so kpdf display them on screen as expected. It is by the way possible to create pdfs with hyperlinks that are not visually identified as such in the document (why would anyone do that is another question).

The real question here is : what should the reader do when the pdf to display contains those red borders ? Display them on screen ? Obviously : that's what they were made for. Also print them ? That is the question.

Xpdf and acroread do not print those borders, kpdf didn't in the past but now does.
Was this behaviour changed willingly (is it a feature then) or is it a bug ?
If a bug, I think it should be corrected.
If a feature, I think it should be possible to have an option in kpdf that let the user decides if he wants the borders printed or not.

[Sisyphe (verslenet-buntu)]

According to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145907 the bug has been fixed.
Still I do have the bug with kpdf 0.5.8 provided by Ubuntu. Could it be Ubuntu specific ?

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

I have the same problem with okular in KDE 4.0.2.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

As far as I can tell from the last comment on the upstream bug, this is intentional.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Okular is in kdegraphics now, so closing the Okular task.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

This is a regression caused by Poppler.
It's fixed in v0.10 so it only affects Intrepid.

There is a backported bugfix from Fedora, which I sumbitted to Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514164

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

The debian bug report marks this as fixed in poppler (0.10.4-1) which is already in ubuntu. I'm marking this bug as fixed, please comment if this is not appropriate.