Converting a PDF to HTML

[andreac53346361]

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!

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

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]

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]

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" />

[andreac53346361]

I don't have a server and am trying to send these to the company, any idea how I can get the http:// location for them?  Thank you again so much for your help!

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

That is an HTML problem, and something you need to figure out with your client.

[andreac53346361]

Okay.  I still feel so lost and confused, do you have any knowledge or suggestions on how I can get these InDesign files that are hyperlinked into an email signature?  I thought saving them as PDFs and converting them to http:// URLs would be easy, but I'm back to the beginning now.  Thank you.

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

There is no need to save the file first to PDF and then from there to HTML, you can export to HTML directly from InDesign. But regardless of which way you decide to go, publishing the resulting HTML to a web site is not related to Adobe Acrobat or PDF, so you will not find any help in this forum.