Question / Print Power Point presentation as Handouts with functioning hyperlinks

[eulivieri]

Using Adobe Standard DC it is not possible to print a Microsoft Power Point presentation as Handouts (e.g. 2 slides per page) while maintaining the hyperlinks. All hyperlinks are shown, but are not clickable, i.e. all hyperlink information are lost. Is that a wished option or rather a bug?

How can I print Power Point presentation as Handouts with functioning hyperlinks?

Thank you for your support in advance!

[swapnilsrivastava]

Hi There,

Thanks for reporting the issue here.

As mentioned, you're using Standard DC account instead of Professional DC account; which has some limitations over the lator. But, links should be present even with the standard account as well.

• Can you share a sample file in which the issue is reproducible at your end.
• Which version of Acrobat are you using?
• OS (Win or Mac and version)
• MS Office version (O365, O2019, O2016 or old and is the same x32 or x64)

These details will help us identify the issue.

Regards,
Swapnil Srivastava

[eulivieri]

Dear Swapnil, thank You for Your email!

In the meanwhile I've  just got the solution to this problem from a colleague. It is indeed possible to print a Power Point presentation as Handouts (2 or more slides per page) as PDF document and maintaining any hyperlinks from that presentation. Here are the detailed steps:

• click on “File” --> click on “Save As” --> select “PDF (*.pdf)” from the combo list;
• click on “More option…” in the link below that combo list
• in the “Save As” dialog, click on “Options…”;
• in the “Options” dialog, click and select “Handouts” in the “Publish what” combo list;
• finally click on “OK” to go back to the “Save As” dialog;
• final click on “Save” to create the PDF document.
• Optionally the “Slides per page” can be modified in a further combo list on the “Options” dialog.

Actually that is not a "print" action, but rather a "save" action,(and that was indeed my main mistake...

Kind regards,

EU.