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Hyperlinks are lost when placing one InDesign file into another

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
February 8, 2024
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Hi,

I'm having an issue with hyperlinks. My indesign version si 19.0

I have a indd document "A". In this document "A", I import another indd document "B".

This imported indd document "B" contains hyperlinks wich work perfectly : 2 URLs and 1 phone number.

I dont see them in the indd document "A". They seem to be lost.

Please any help ?

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Mike Witherell

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Placed .indd files inside another .indd file behaves as static artwork only. This behavior has always been the same.

That shouldn't stop you from building/copy/pasting the hyperlink from the embedded indd file into a layer on top of the placed artwork layer.

Mike Witherell

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Olivier35327949v8r9Author

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Mike

This is weird. It used to work for plenty of documents I created for years! I can't understand this.

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Olivier35327949v8r9Author

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Did they show up in the hyperlinks panel or did the hyperlinks get auto-detected by a PDF reader?

Since I cant reproduce the fact now, I cant tell if they were in the hyperlink panel. I just saw it stopped to work when I used more than 1 link, this morning. So far, the only PDF reader I used to check was AdobeReader.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Allow me to respond to your threat: Placed .indd files inside another .indd file behaves as static artwork only.

Mike Witherell

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Olivier35327949v8r9Author

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Thanks!

I'm OK with this, but why did it work previously? Just a very lucky random? Or did this feature vanish with a version update?

Or --mabye-- is there another way of cascading an indd file inside another one and still keep the hyperlinks?

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Placed INDD file is like any other placed file - it's a separate entity and its contents isn't a direct part of the document it's placed in.

Of course, its contents will be integrated in the finall PDF.

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Olivier35327949v8r9Author

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Thanks but obviously it is not, that is why I opened this threat.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Can you share some example files?

INDD A + B + PDF you've exported.

BobLevine

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That's how it works. Interactivity does not come along for the ride.

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Olivier35327949v8r9Author

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Thanks, but... It used to work previously. I have examples where it worked. So ?

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