To @try67: These posts discuss a real bug that needs to get fixed. Although (sorry but) your comment is actually a distraction, you can be helpful by taking the steps I outline later in this reply.
Regardless of how the original poster, @andrey_shel's link was created, the point raised by your post is well covered and contradicted by my post, where I write that:
> I am creating the links in two different ways in Word, via "Insert" in the main menu, and also via "Link" in the ribbon.
So, the problem does occur with a "real" link, and furthermore the problem occurs regardless of which of two different "real" methods were used to create the "real" link.
The whole point of @andrey_shel's post and of my post is that the problem has been isolated and identified, and it (the problem) is the presence of a hyphen (dash, minus sign, '-') at the end of the link. Let's stay focused on the problem, and not create red-herring trails.
Both @andrey_shel and I determined that various other PDF conversion methods do not have the problem, and that the problem seems to be restricted to a "print" to PDf action; a.k.a. Distiller. So, there is an extremely specific bug occurring here, one that could be quickly remedied by a competant programmer assigned to the task. Yet, this bug has been out there for years, (perhaps decades), and Adobe has done nothing about it. The last thing needed here is yet another distraction. Adobe needs to be notified about the bug, and then they can fix it.
If you want to be helpful, @try67, please do the following; your effort will be appreciated:
- Create a link target with a hypen as the last character. (That, all by itself, is a bit of a challenge. Google Drive creates them, but randomly. For a normal (non-Google) file, you could rename a ".txt" to ".txt-"; that's a valid test to see if you get a "not found" error, just don't expect the text editor to open when it is found.)
- Within Word for Mac, using any method you want, create a link that points to that target. The URL will have a hyphen as the last character. Make sure that the Word document has some text on the line after the link, like "more here".
- Confirm that the link works while still within Word. (So, for the ".txt-" example, it might not open the file, but the absence of a "not found" error indicates success.)
- Use the Mac "print" capability. So, open the "print" dialog, and within that, use the "as PDF" capability at the bottom left of the dialog. From the drop-down, choose "as pdf file." This creates a new file at the location you indicate.
- Open the ".pdf". While in the opened ".pdf", locate the link and click on it.
- Observe the result at your default browser. I predict you will get a "not found" error. In that case, examine the address bar of the browser. I suspect you will see extra text on the URL. For exampe, given my suggestion that the original Word document should have the text "more here" on the line following the link, the URL will have the word "more" concatinated at the end of the URL, following the hyphen. (Also, I think maybe the pdf document will have the word "more" missing from the document text.)
Let us know what happens. Anbody know how to notify Adobe?
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