Hyperlinks Not Navigating to Correct Pages in InDesign Book PDF

Report · Oct 21, 2024

I have created a book file in InDesign, the book file is made up of several InDesign documents, each docment has master pages setup which have coloured tabs down the edge of the document that display the book chapter titles. I have created hyperlinks using these chapter titles, and linked them to each seperate InDesign document for the chapters. There are no error warnings in InDesign, but yet when I export the book file to PDF these links when clicked on do not take you to the correct page I specified for the documents, each link I click on takes me to the first page of the overall PDF. When i exported to PDF I made sure the hyperlinks option is selected/ticked. So I can't work out why these hyperlinks are not taking you to the page I setup in the InDesign file.

Report · Nov 18, 2024

By the way you describe your workflow, you initially made a hyperlink to a separate document; but then you exported a single PDF document. The hyperlink is still written expecting to seek out a separate document (which would need to be in a same folder location, of course). My suggestion would be to combine the InDesign documents into one; adjust your hyperlinks to seek pages or anchored objects; then export to PDF so that the hyperlinks are looking within the document.

Mike Witherell