Hyperlinks in MS publisher not working in pdf

[Reshmi]

Hi
I have designed a newsletter in Publisher consisting of many hyperlinks..i
want the newsletter in pdf..but in pdf the links are not working, whereas
they are working in webpage preview.
How do i make the links work in pdf??please help..

Thanx

 

[DavidF]

If you use primopdf and probably the other freebies to produce your PDFs,
then your hyperlinks will not survive the conversion. I understand that the
PDF program Don recommends, the full version of Adobe Acrobat and some
others will preserve the links, or allow you to add the hyperlinks to the
PDF. I also understand that the hyperlinks survive the conversion to PDF in
the new Publisher 2007, but that feature might go away before it is
introduced...something about Adobe not liking what MS is planning for Office
2007.

DavidF

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Actually, Adobe Reader 6.05 (?) will read a URL as a link without doing
anything. And that includes a .pdf file created with Primo. It also knows
that an email address is just that. It will *not* show them as a hyperlink
tho.

And yes, the save as .pdf will be going away unless Microsoft can somehow or
another persuade Adobe to lighten up. I doubt that will happen. Talk about a
clash of the Titans.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[DavidF]

We've discussed this before, and actually, you are wrong...at least when you
only have primopdf installed. Perhaps it works for you because you have the
full version of Acrobat installed. I just tested it again, and while the
hyperlinked text will retain the blue color and the underline, the link is
no longer active...and that is using the Adobe Reader 6.05.

Try an experiment. Create a new Email newsletter, select some text, right
click > hyperlink > Existing File or Web Page > Browsed Pages, and either
paste in a full URL, or choose one that you have browsed. When you have done
it properly, the text will the turn the default blue and be underlined. Do a
web preview, and try the links. Then print to primopdf, and tell me if the
hyperlinks work. If they do, then the only explanation I can think of is
because you have Acrobat installed.

DavidF

Actually, Adobe Reader 6.05 (?) will read a URL as a link without doing
anything. And that includes a .pdf file created with Primo. It also knows
that an email address is just that. It will *not* show them as a hyperlink
tho.

And yes, the save as .pdf will be going away unless Microsoft can somehow
or another persuade Adobe to lighten up. I doubt that will happen. Talk
about a clash of the Titans.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

If you use primopdf and probably the other freebies to produce your PDFs,
then your hyperlinks will not survive the conversion. I understand that
the PDF program Don recommends, the full version of Adobe Acrobat and
some others will preserve the links, or allow you to add the hyperlinks
to the PDF. I also understand that the hyperlinks survive the conversion
to PDF in the new Publisher 2007, but that feature might go away before
it is introduced...something about Adobe not liking what MS is planning
for Office 2007.

DavidF

 

[Don Schmidt]

Seems like adding a pdf creating feature to any program is a waste of time.
Most folks would want a pdf creating capability for all document creating
programs on their computer. Thus most of the free pdf programs would suffice
and the modestly priced ones would fill all needs. For instance, my HP 8200
scanner has pdf creating capabilities but when checking the size of a recent
scanned file it was 12 Mb! Hardly something you would want to send to
someone on dialup service. The acceptable solution was to recreate the file
using my favorite, PDF-XChange the file became 4Mb. So, if you had 4 or 5
programs with their own pdf creating functions, you may end up redoing the
file with your favorite stand alone pdf program.

So programmers, leave out the pdf function and lower the price of the
program.