URL Lenght Limit

Question

Hi, I create pdf's from excel real often and when I do I add in URL's with Adobe acrobat pro DC. 9/10 time this goes perfect. But every once in a while the URL's are cut off after about 259 characters. This is extremly annoying. Is there any fix for this? Why is this even happening?

All pdfs are generated from the same excel template.

One thing I do know is that Excel itself is uncapable of generating pdfs with urls longer than 255. This is why I started using adobe acrobat to add the url's in place.

try67 · Answer

This kind of thing usually happens because of the type of variable used to store the date you're entering.

255 (or 256) is a normal number where this can happen because it's a power of 2 (2^8). 259 might be because the "http" part is not included in the URL, or something like that.

I tried doing the same thing using a script and the URL was also cut-off, but after 1052 characters...

So the solution is either to use a script (if 1052 characters are enough for you), or to use a Tiny URL-type service.

Of course, you can also report this issue as a bug to Adobe, here: Feature Request/Bug Report Form

I don't see any reason why this should be limited at all... If someone wants to specify a million-characters long URL, let them. Whether or not the browser can handle it is a different question, of course.

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