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Hyperlink to page jumps to bottom of page in interactive .pdf

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August 15, 2019
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Hi all,

Pretty straightforward as the post suggests - I'm using a hyperlink in a document to jump to different pages in the document. The pages are long vertical pages, and when I output the file to interactive .pdf and click the hyperlink, it jumps to the bottom of the page, as opposed to the top as you would typically want it to do. I have the fit settings to "fit width" for viewing, but have tried other settings to no avail. I'm wondering if this is just a bug in InDesign, where it's setup to anchor to the bottom of the page, or if there is something I'm missing in order to make it jump to the top of the page? Any comments are appreciated, thanks!

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Correct answer loganc98578638

So it seems that the workaround for this is to set a text box as a "Hyperlink Destination" (I just made a box of text at the top of the pages I want to jump to and made the text transparent, as it seems that there needs to be text in the box for it to work). Then, instead of hyperlinking to the page, you hyperlink to the text anchor - so now it's jumping to the top of the page in the .pdf as intended, with fit width and single page set. Still would like to see the default anchor for interactive .pdfs be the top of the page as opposed to the bottom if that is indeed the case. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

loganc98578638AuthorCorrect answer

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So it seems that the workaround for this is to set a text box as a "Hyperlink Destination" (I just made a box of text at the top of the pages I want to jump to and made the text transparent, as it seems that there needs to be text in the box for it to work). Then, instead of hyperlinking to the page, you hyperlink to the text anchor - so now it's jumping to the top of the page in the .pdf as intended, with fit width and single page set. Still would like to see the default anchor for interactive .pdfs be the top of the page as opposed to the bottom if that is indeed the case. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

macpawel

Participating Frequently

Try to use bookmarks anchor to set hiperlink

Use also Derek suggestion - be sure your document allows to display contious pages

loganc98578638Author

Inspiring

See response to Derek's suggestion - I don't want to use continuous or fit to height, so neither of those are valid solutions. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "use bookmarks anchor to set hyperlink?" Not sure what to do with that, thanks.

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Try Fit Height, and Single Page Continuous.

loganc98578638Author

Inspiring

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, this does not help me in this situation, as I want the pages to fit to width. For more context, this is a rather long web page concept design, so I want the viewer to scroll through it. If I display it to height, the graphics etc. will be too small to view. Also, I have a title page that displays the buttons that are hyperlinking to the other pages, so I'd prefer to have it set to Single Page so the other pages aren't revealed until the user interacts with the button. Hope that makes sense, any other ideas?

BobLevine

Community Expert

You are using the wrong tool for this.

XD would be a better bet, but my go to tool for website mockups is the back of a napkin.

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