Indesign hyperlinks not working. Suspect invisible characters on url filename but need a fix.

[gk13614305]

My Indesign is making hyperlinks have invisible characters I suspect, as when I export to pdf the interactive pdf links add %OD at the end of the filename and it doesn't go to any page

[Mike Witherell]

What version of InDesign?

[gk13614305]

I'm on a Mac and it's the latest version I updated yesterday. When clicking on my pdf link it opens my internet security as a Malware URL... Is InDesign infected? My Antivirus says no threat... I am very confused but have uninstalled InDesign to be safe for now

[James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted solution]

Are you on Sonoma? InDesign v19 is not compatible with that revision. Adobe is working on it but it's taking some time.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

That's a carriage return, encoded for pure ASCII strings like URLs. You might make sure your hyperlink URLs have no extra characters at the end — space, tab, carriage return, linefeed. I don't know any version of ID that adds these characters but some can be literal about including whitespace if it's part of the string.

[gk13614305]

I tripple checked many times that the URL's in the hyperlink area have no spaces (Mac user). Lots of weird things happening before my eyes since I updated the latest version of InDesign... My security alerted me to it being a Malware URL which is also weird but antivirus says no threat...