Please help me before I lob out this PC.

[DarrenC]

Frustrated, yep I am

I cant for the life of me get a weblink working in a PDF document that I am creating via Adobe Designer. I enter the text from a MS Word document and it's still not working.

How do I get a damn weblink working in a PDF document.

Can anyone help before I'm PCless :lol:

Darren

 

[Jayne]

Don't do it Darren :lol:


PM Lynn Cox, she's a wiz at all this sort of stuff, she should help you, she's a smashing lass.

Jayne

 

[Astaroth]

what is the problem you are having?

Normally it would be a straightfoward link to it...

Text for link


Add target="_blank" in the <a> tag if you want it to open in a new window.

 

[DarrenC]

Astaroth, thanks, but its the link within the PDF file that I am trying to make clickable. It shows up as a link, i.e blue and underlined but when you click on it, it doesn't appear as a clickable link.

Jayne, thanks I will.. Lynn has proofread the magazine (did a great job)

 

[Astaroth]

have you posted it so that I can see what is going wrong?

 

[Stephen]

Are you applying any security settings? These can stop links in PDFs from working.

 

[LindseyMHC]

Thanks for posting this Darren - I'm really interested to find out how this is done as well. I thought links couldn't work in a pdf as a pdf, by definition, is a photo of the document.

If a PC guru out there knows how to make a link in pdf work I am sure loads of us would be grateful.

Yours in anticipation ....

Lindsey.

 

[Stephen]

No, a PDF isn't really a photo of the document - it's a stuctured description of a document. There is support for links, and other 'active' content, and can be made very flexible.

The exact route to creating links varies depending on what software is being used to create the document. For example in InDesign, it can be done with buttons then setting the interactive content.

However, as I mentioned previously, certain security settings will effectively disable the hyperlinks from working, so that's a good thing to check first.

 

[Subbynet]

I don't have that application installed on this computer, but don't you just highlight it, pick Hyperlink and then add the address?

 

[datahound]

As Stephen says certain security setting can stop links from working on your PC specifically but they may work for others. Post up the document so we can test it. Or find another pdf that contains a link, can you activate that?

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