it will generate an error

What is the error?  It works for me (if I uncomment the respective lines), i.e. it creates an annotation link to www.somewhere.com at the specified position on page 2.

OTOH, as I'm reading your ...have the first column "Content 1" to be a link, you would like to have every cell of column 1 be a link to some URL (not just one link per page).  Unfortunately, PDF::Table does not make this easy. What you would want is a configurable callback/hook function that's being called when a cell is rendered, so you can easily get at its current coordinates, etc. As it is, there is no such thing...  But you could patch PDF/Table.pm like this 

               }   # line 615

               ### insert this
               if (ref $arg{cell_render_hook} eq 'CODE') {    
                   $arg{cell_render_hook}->(
                                            $page,
                                            $rows_counter,
                                            $j,
                                            $cur_x,
                                            $cur_y-$row_h,
                                            $calc_column_widths->[$j],
                                            $row_h
                                           );    
               }
               ###

               $cur_x += $calc_column_widths->[$j];  # orig. line 616
       }#End of for(my $j....                        # orig. line 617

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This would add a new option 'cell_render_hook', which you set to a function that gets called whenever a cell has been rendered. The function is being passed the following arguments: 

    page-obj,  row-index, column-index,  x, y, width, height

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Your code would then look something like this: 

use strict;
use PDF::API2;
use PDF::Table;

my $pdftable = new PDF::Table;
my $pdf = new PDF::API2(-file => "table-1.pdf");
   $pdf->preferences(
                      -thumbs => 1,
                );

sub newpage {
    my $page = $pdf->page;
    $page->mediabox(792,612);
    return $page;
}

my $page = newpage();

# some data to layout
my $some_data =[
   # same data as in your code... (not duplicated for brevity)
];


# build the table layout

$pdftable->table(
    # required params
    $pdf,
    $page,
    $some_data,
    x => 70,
    w => 650,
    start_y => 550,
    next_y  => 550,
    start_h => 500,
    next_h  => 500,
    # some optional params
    padding => 5,
    padding_right => 10,
    background_color_odd  => "gray",
    background_color_even => "lightblue", #cell background color for e
+ven rows

    new_page_func => \&newpage,  # as defined above

    cell_render_hook => sub {    # this is our newly introduced callba
+ck function
        my ($page,  $row, $col,  $x, $y, $w, $h) = @_;
        
        if ($col == 0) {  # do nothing except for first column
            my $url = "http://www.somewhere.com/my.php?row=$row";
            my $annot = $page->annotation();
            $annot->url(
                        $url,
                        -rect   => [$x, $y, $x+$w, $y+$h],
                        -border => [1,1,1]
                       );
        }
    },

 ),

# do other stuff with $pdf
$pdf->saveas();

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which would produce this PDF.

In reply to Re^3: PDF, annotation method using Perl by almut
in thread PDF, annotation method using Perl by Anonymous Monk

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