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andreac53346361
andreac53346361
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May 2, 2017
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Converting a PDF to HTML

  • May 2, 2017
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I'm sure this is a dumb question.  But I created several email signatures for a company within InDesign that include hyperlinks.  I know for them to use them in their Gmail signatures they need to be HTML files, but every time I convert them in Acrobat they save as file:// instead of http://  How do I change this?  Please and thank you!

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Karl Heinz Kremer
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Karl Heinz KremerCommunity Expert
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May 2, 2017

When you save a PDF document to HTML, all links point to the filesystem that e.g. the images are being saved to. The converter does not know where you want to save these files eventually.

You will have to change these links manually.

andreac53346361
andreac53346361Author
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May 2, 2017

Thank you so much for responding!  I don't understand what you mean by changing the links manually, could you please provide me with more detail, I really appreciate the help.

Karl Heinz Kremer
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Karl Heinz KremerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 2, 2017

You have to change the contents of the HTML file that is produced by Acrobat (or InDesign). You will find something like this in your HTML file for each image file:

<img width="477" height="164" alt="image" src="Acrobat/Image_001.jpg" />

You need to change the information after 'src=' to the actual link where this image will be located on your web server. It needs to look something like this (but again, with the correct path):

<img width="477" height="164" alt="image" src="http://www.example.com/images/Image_001.jpg" />
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