Anchor and Chunk not working in iText 2.1.7 - hyperlink

Question

All,
Good morning.
I was trying to create Links from one part of PDF document to other part using iText.
Version of iText I use is 2.1.7
I tried using both Anchors and Chunks and neither are working. Basically the link does not become Clickable at all.
Here is the Destination code with Anchor and Chunk:
Anchor anchor = new Anchor("Reach here");
anchor.setName("DestinationID");
pdfDocument.add(anchor);
Chunk chunk = new Chunk("Reach here");
chunk.setLocalDestination("DestinationID");
pdfDocument.add(chunk);
Here is the Link code with Anchor and Chunk:
Anchor anchor = new Anchor("Click Here", PDFConstants.HELVETICA_8_BOLD_UNDERLINE);
anchor.setReference("#DestinationID");
cell.add(anchor);
Chunk chunk = new Chunk("Click Here", PDFConstants.HELVETICA_8_BOLD_UNDERLINE);
chunk.setLocalGoto("DestinationID");
cell.add(chunk);
// cell gets added to a Table later
Appreciate if someone could point what I was doing wrong.
thank you,
Raghavan

Answer 1

You have to take in account the Bruno Lowagie comments and upgrade your version because iText 2.1.7 is an old version an doesn't complain with new PDFReference specifications.
Anywise I don't see anything wrong in your code snippet, may be the problem is in the rest of your code which you're not showing up. I did a simple test with Chunk with a 2.1.7 version an it worked, I give you my sample if you want to check if there is something that could help you:
import java.awt.Color;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.lowagie.text.Cell;
import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Font;
import com.lowagie.text.FontFactory;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.Table;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
public class PDFChunkTest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, DocumentException {
Document doc = new Document();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc,new FileOutputStream("C:/temp/pdf.pdf"));
doc.open();
Chunk chunk = new Chunk("click here", FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 8, Font.BOLD, new Color(0, 0, 255)));
chunk.setLocalGoto("test");
Table tab = new Table(1, 2);
Cell cell = new Cell();
cell.add(chunk);
tab.addCell(cell);
doc.add(tab);
Paragraph p2 = new Paragraph("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...");
doc.add(p2);
doc.add(p2);
doc.add(p2);
doc.add(p2);
doc.add(p2);
doc.add(p2);
Chunk chunk2 = new Chunk("local destination", FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 8, Font.BOLD, new Color(0, 0, 0)));
chunk2.setLocalDestination("test");
doc.add(chunk2);
doc.close();
}
}