print to pdf looses links in Acrobat

[Cool 123456 Dude]

Ok, I know there is problems with this, but there should not be from Acrobat Pro DC.  So could someone confirm what I am finding.

I have a Acrobat Pro DC document.  I add a link (hyperlink). I save the document. Link works a treat.  If I print this document using the pdf printer the links do not work in the printed document.  Is this correct?

Strangely enough if I create the links in Indesign then use the pdf maker to create the pdf open acrobat, and print the document to the pdf printer - the links all translate to the printed document.  What is even more annoying is if I do the same thing in WORD the document links print OK.  The problem seems to be in Acrobat and I am assuming the links work because I used the pdf maker to create the pdf's.

Is there a way to run the pdf maker in Acrobat? or is there some setting in Acrobat that I have wrong.

Just now to make this work, I am creating my links in WORD, running the pdf maker, then copy and paste from the resulting pdf into my Acrobat document, before I print.  What a mess.

HELP

[Test Screen Name]

So all this time this has been about recognised URLs, which is what I said in my very first reply? Why did it take 19 more messages to get here...?

[Cool 123456 Dude]

And I still have the same issue, only the urls created in InDesign work in the printed document.

[Cool 123456 Dude]

Thanks for this info.  I have worked this through and here are my findings.  Can I just confirm with you that this what you would expect to see happening.

In Acrobat Pro DC with the preferences box for make web link from URLs unchecked.

I open my pdf from InDesign which has 2 links.  The links do not work.

I add a text box and put in the text http://www.google.com - this link also does not work.

I print the document, the resulting pdf opens in READER and if the preference checkbox is selected for make web link  in READER all 3 links work.

If I deselect the check box in preferences in READER.  Open my document none of the links work.

I then print from READER. The resulting document none of the links work.

I then change the preferences in READER back to select the web link from URLs box, ONLY the links created in Indesign work, not the link I created in Acrobat.

If this is all correct? then I need to do all the printing from within Acrobat Pro.

Many thanks for your help

[Test Screen Name]

The answer is not to print to Adobe PDF, but I don't think I can muster the energy to spend 20 more posts arguing that.

[Cool 123456 Dude]

I Do HEAR what you are saying about Don't Print.

I could use script to lock the form, or perhaps digital signatures.  But printing also greatly reduces the size of the file, and I am not sure if I could code for that.  I did look at "switching the form". So that a different form is used for presentation of the data, that is what we are currently doing for the Infopath forms.  But the method in Acrobat was certainly not straight forward.

I am open to suggestions

[Mike5E6E]

From Indesign File->Export->Adobe PDF Interactive