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Creating hyperlinks from URLS on two lines

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May 2, 2017
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Our technical journal contains a lot of long URLs that break between two lines.

When I attempt to create hyperlinks from these URLS, the result contains a space where the line break occurs, so I have to go back and edit them all manually to remove the space so the link will work in the exported PDF. This is extremely time-consuming and annoying and I don't want to do it!

For example, this text:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference

/fast15/fast15-paper-aghayev.pdf

Creates this hyperlink:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast15 /fast15-paper-aghayev.pdf

Here is an example of what the formatted text looks like.

I have tried letting Acrobat create the hyperlinks from the URLS, but I get the same result, a space in the hyperlink where the line break occurs.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

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Correct answer Raphael0101

There might be an easier solution for you and anyone who had this issue, like me. Just put the URL between < >. It worked for me

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Hi Raphael,

would you be so kind to share a sample document where you are using this solution with enclosing < > brackets?

Best put in on Dropbox or a similar service and post the download link.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

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Raphael0101Correct answer

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There might be an easier solution for you and anyone who had this issue, like me. Just put the URL between < >. It worked for me

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Brilliant! This solved my problem, thanks so much!!!

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Ariel

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michelenelson59Author

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Thanks, Ariel, I will test this right away.

michelenelson59Author

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I downloaded the free version as a test. I had to go through and remove the forced line breaks I inserted, but once I did that, it worked fine.

I assume I can change my forced line breaks to discretionary line breaks with a grep find/change so I don't have to remove them all.

I'll test this a bit more, but it looks like it might be just what I need.