How to make a piece of text a hyperlink that is clickable in Adobe Reader DC?

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Hello,I am making documents using National Instrument's DIAdem, which pretty much is a document editor which then exports to PDF. Some of the things in these documents are URLs such as "https://forums.adobe.com". However, when I export these to PDF and open them in Adobe Reader DC, they are not clickable hyperlinks and are just plain, boring text. Is there a tag I should have on the text or some other way to tell Adobe that the piece of text should be a clickable hyperlink?

try67 · Answer

You can add a Link object in Acrobat to make sure there's always a clickable link there.

Another option is to enable the setting to create hyperlinks from plain-text URLs (under Edit - Preferences - General), but that's a local setting. If someone else opens the file and they don't have this setting turned on, they won't see a link there. With the first option, they will.

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