Right Click - Copy hyperlink

[ColdWarG]

How?

I searched through the settings and cannot find a means to turn on this security option.

Currently the only thing the reader does is open them in a new browser window.

[~graffiti]

What security option?

Also, Reader cannot add security of any kind to a document. For that you need the full version of Acrobat.

[ColdWarG]

That is the question, and issue.

As a user of the reader, I get annoyed by scammers that embed the scareware link in a PDF and the only means to reporting it to malware is by clicking the link and permitted it to open in your browser. You cannot even get the link from the dialog that pops up because of the textout method used to display the hyperlink, it's an image.

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

Right click - copy hyperlink is not available.

[ColdWarG]

And that's my point.

[Bernd Alheit]

When you move the mouse over the link you can read the hyperlink.

[ColdWarG]

so you can easily read the following hyperlink and remember it?

thisisalongdomainnamelinked/with/many/slashes/and/238947yr9r8f4985/sequences

[Bernd Alheit]

This not a valid hyperlink.

[giffmistress]

I agree with you, it should be possible to right click and copy hyperlink addresses in Reader. If you use Google Chrome to open your PDF file instead of Adobe, that feature is available to you.

[Bernd Alheit]

Use Adobe Acrobat, not Acrobat Reader.

[Michal Czapski]

To make Bernd's answer more generic - do not use Acrobat Reader for reading pdf files.

Adobe Acrobat just for reading documents is unnecessary overkill.

[Tariq Ahmad]

Hello,

The right click option to "Copy Link" is only available in Acrobat. Adobe Reader doesn't have this option, currently

You may file a feature request and help us with your comments. How this feature is important to your workflow: Adobe Acrobat Reader - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

Adobe Acrobat DC:

-Tariq Dar

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A better alternative available to the significantly larger percentage of Acrobat Reader users is to save the file to a folder on your system (presuming it was sent to you via email), right click on it, and select "Open With" and choose Chrome (caveat, you need Chrome installed on your system of course!.)

  The Chrome display engine permits copying the link when you right click on the linked text.    This is MUCH safer than clicking a suspect link and trying to capture it from a browser address bar (which often can't be done anyway.)

[luconsta]

Hello Tariq,

But why would "Copy Link Location" would be a "premium" option?... in this case why bother using Adobe reader at all, when for a simple task like copy link I have to open the document into a browser?...

After 3 years... this basic option still missing from the Adobe Reader. 😞

Kind Regards,

Lucian

[Magnus35128214082y]

2024 - same problem. Missing basic features every other program has, but is full of features nobody needs.

[artem_6585]

2025 - feature still not available. This is incredibly embarassing for Adobe.

[Tariq Ahmad]

Hi @artem_6585, 

Copy link location serves the same purpose as Copy hyperlink.

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Best regards,
Tariq | Adobe Community Team

[artem_6585]

@Tariq Ahmad 

Neither option exists in the right-click context menu. I can apparently open the AI assistant, but I can't do a simple capture of the hyperlink to the clipboard. This is on Mac OS X:

Architecture: arm64

Processor: Apple M1 Pro

Build: 25.1.20577.0

AGM: 7.1.15

CoolType: 10.0.3

JP2K: 4.0.2.54782

[artem_6585]

For comparison, here is the same document opened in a simple OS X Preview.

[Tariq Ahmad]

Thanks for the quick response and for the screenshots. 
I just created a new test file at my end and added a hyperlink with Adobe Acrobat, https: acrobat. com. And when i right click on it i get options:

Now, this raises the question of what kind of link is created. This link can be to a page, a PDF file, etc. 

Best regards,
Tariq | Adobe Community Team