Not able to Hyperlink when export to PDF

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January 26, 2012
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I have Indesign 7.5.2. I have run all updates. I have a file that I am trying to make hyperlinks on. I can create the link in Indesign. When I export the file to PDF the links are not active. I have selected the feature to include hyperlinks. I am new to Indesign and this is driving me crazy! I have searched and tried everything that was recommended but still not working. Does anyone know of a fix?

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Peter Spier

Community Expert

There are two problems with Acrobat's URL recognition, it can be turned off, and it won't work on a URL that breaks across a line.

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Jeffrey_Smith

Community Expert

Are you creating just a hyperlink destination without applying it to text? What is the hyperlink linking to: URL, File, Page, Text Anchor, etc. ? Does the destination still exist in your document (i.e. if the link goes to page 12, is there still a page 12 in doc?) If the hyperlink goes to an URL, is the address spelled out correctly?

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Christine40Author

Known Participant

I am trying to link to a url.

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Jeffrey_Smith

Community Expert

In a text frame, you can set the text of an URL, select it, from the Hyperlinks Panel > New Hyperlink from URL. This will do two things: create the hyperlink destination, and then make the selected text a link with your URL destination.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

I've moved this out of Feature Requests to the general discusion forum since it's a question rather than a feature request.

What settings are you using (if a preset, which one?) for the export? Did you actually create hyperlinks in the file using the Hyperlinks panel?

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Christine40Author

Known Participant

I am exporting as Adobe PDF interactive. I have found that if I select rectangle tool then select the text and go to window interactive hperlinks I can get them to work. But there must be an easier way.

lesleycsage

Participant

Also, Acrobat/Reader will create a link from a typed URL as long as this application preference is turned on. This pref is turned on when app is installed and most people do not change this behavior. So what this means is, you wouldn't need to define a URL hyperlink in Indesign for the majority of users.

Hi,

I kinda picked up on this conversation as I am having similar issues. I you say there was an 'app' to make hyperlinks work in Acrobat? or is there another Acrobat application which may serve better to produce hyperlinks along with other useful animated tools which support graphics and text from InDesign and Illustrator?

I just trialled a test PDF with www.google.com and the URL was active in PDF Reader. I assume that Acrobat recognises the 'www'? but what I need to do is create many hyperlinks which lead to specific pages and PDF documents on our intranet.

For example, I highlighted the text I wanted to link; ' 'Set up project in APIC' and I set the destination as 'URL' and the true link name and it doesn't work, in the hyperlinks panel the button is displaying as red and the link doesn't work in epub or exported as interactive PDF?

It has taken me longer to try and resolve the links than to design the whole document, I can only come to the conclusion that the link names are either too long or there's some kind of weird character in the pathname that it doesn't like?

Many thanks

Lesley

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