%0D being added to all URL's

I had this same issue, it was due to there being 'space' at the end of my URL. I found that if I copied the URL directly from the internet search bar and pasted into the hyperlink, there was no extra 'space' at the end and I did not have any more issues.

I figured it out:

1. Add hyperlink

2. Save the file 

3. Go to Edit the link and place the cusror at the end and press backspace

4. Magically the hidden space will be deleted

5. Then Simply save again

6. Repeat for each link 

When you copy a CELL with a URL the *invisible* characters "%0D" are added to the URL. To verifiy you have invisible characters, on the Hyperlinks panel URL space, try to change the last letter/digit of the URL, by positioning the coursor at the end of the visible URL and backspace to replace. If you need more than one backspace clicks to get the coursor to remove the last character/digit, you have invisible characters on your URL and it will not function properly. 

You need to paste the URL as text, and only text. When I copy a URL from an excel file, I place the coursor on the cell but copy the content of the formula bar, which will copy as text, not the cell itself. 

Ok, had the same issue and figured out the reason/solution. At the end of the url's that are opening with '%0D' included, there is actually an extra space added that needs to be deleted. Go to edit your hyperlink within InDesign, click at the VERY end of the hyperlink (even if you don't see an extra space there), and press backspace once. You'll probably notice that the cursor won't even move; if there wasn't an extra space there, it was instead delete the last key typed. After deleting this (perhaps) invisible extra space, save it. Should now open properly. 

Hi InbalZissu,

by help of some scripting I read out all URL addresses of all buttons of your document with gotoURLBehaviors.

It's a very mixed list of addresses already in the document. Some encoded with Unicode like in this notation <0000>, some are not valid, some are OK, some seem to be OK, but do not work. So I'm really not sure anymore what's working and why are some failing.

Did you apply all the URLs with copy/paste from a list?

To do a bug report you should single out some of them that are OK with InDesign, looking OK at first glance with Acrobat but still do not work as intended. I'm not exactly sure why. Copy/paste errors? URL of a web page changed? No idea.

That's the hard stuff you have to check first. Time consuming for 99 buttons.

But how would you like to proceed?

Best test and change the URLs in the exported PDF you like to deliver.

FWIW: I still think, that the title of this thread:

%0D being added to all URL's

does NOT apply to the issues you are seeing.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi InbalZissu,

FWIW: If I do publish your document with InDesign's Publish Online feature the URL links of the buttons that contain the Hebrew parts at the end of the link are working as expected. So I really think we have a bug with Export to PDF Interactive and buttons with gotoURLBehaviors.

However, with Publish Online the QR codes are done very lowres. To correct this you may consider using InDesign 2020 and place the QR codes as SVG vector graphics. Placing SVG graphics done with e.g. Adobe Illustrator is a new feature with InDesign 2020 and the SVG vector images should remain as vector graphics in the Publish Online HTML code. Did not test that yet.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi InbalZissu,

finally I found a solution to your problem.

EDIT: I was too optimistic! This issue is still NOT sorted. Sorry.

You have to encode the Hebrew glyphs in a different way.

One example where we leave that part of the URL anlone:

https://www.kolzchut.org.il/he/

But the encoding of the rest of the URL is this:

%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%93_%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A8_%D7%A2%D7%9D_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%92%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%AA

Can be done on the web for example here:

https://www.webatic.com/url-convertor

The combined string is now copied as URL to the button in InDesign.

Adobe PDF (interactive) export will generate a URL that is working with Adobe Reader.

I had no luck when encoding the whole URL.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi InbalZissu,

I suggest that you are doing a bug report on InDesign's behavior of exporting the URL with buttons:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi InbalZissu,

ok, then we have an issue.

I've seen into this again.

If I copy the URL of button 60 to a text frame, copy the contents to my browser I get this web page:

If I then assign the contents of this text frame as URL to a button's target and export as Adobe PDF Interactive I can see the same URL in Acrobat Pro with a different notation of the individual Hebrew glyphs, their corresponding Unicode codes:

As far as I can tell there is no glyph added.

The last one in the URL is <05EA> that corresponds with InDesign's contents of the text frame above the button:

However if I click the button with my Adobe Reader the following web page will open:

So I conclude this is a different issue that we are seeing here.

My German InDesign will export the Hebrew glyphs as Unicode codes and my browser is not able to translate them back to Hebrew glyphs like my copy/paste action is doing this OK when coming from the contents of my text frame.

No extra code is added, but the result is far from working.

I have no idea what to do to get this right.

Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

EDITED: Fixed a typo

Hi InbalZissu,

it's hard for me to check your Hebrew document, but as far as I can see there is no issue with the hyperlinks of your buttons in this document. Exported a PDF (Interactive) with my German version of InDesign CC 2019. All buttons are working, means if the are clicked they will lead me to a web page. If they are working as expected I cannot tell, because I cannot read or understand any Hebrew.

Below an example from page 15 with Button 60.

In the layout:

Web page opened with Firefox on Windows 10 from my exported PDF opened in my German Adobe Reader:

The same page will be addressed if I open your PDF and click the same button.

FWIW: I cannot see any %0d characters added to the URLs as the original poster of this thread has seen.

So: What exact issue do you have with that document?

Maybe a bug with the Hebrew version of Adobe Reader?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )