PDF converters don't properly conver hyperlinks<[email protected]

[tricky dick egghead]

I have not found ANY PDF converter that will properly convert hyperlinks in ANY Microsoft application. And... I've tried most of them!!! If you have the e-mail address or URL set up properly, they will convert, by NOT hyperlinks. Someone should come up with a converter that will work!!!

 

[Ed Bennett]

I use Tracker Software's PDF-XChange. It puts a pdf creation icon on the
tool bar in Word and any link, url or email address contained in the Word
doc will be saved as a working link in the created pdf file.

Adobe Acrobat will also do that _if you use the PDFMaker toolbar icon_.
There are NO PDF converters that use the conventional
print-to-a-PDF-printer method that will convert hyperlinks, because the
applications don't send the hyperlink data when printing (amazingly,
because paper generally deactivates hyperlinks anyway).

Office 2007's PDF features also preserve hyperlinks, and aren't as
intrusive and unstable as Adobe's offering.

 

[Ed Bennett]

PDF-XChange does retain the url and email addresses as active when creating
the pdf file with the "printing" operation.

Only if they are left in as plaintext addresses (and in that case, even
URLs and email addresses that were not active in the document will
become active). PDF-XChange's toolbar may keep active links active in
all cases, but no printer-driver-only solution will. Also, recent
versions of Reader will automatically activate plaintext URLs and email
addresses anyway; the fact that the OP claimed that he hadn't had
success suggested that he was looking for a way to activate
non-plaintext hyperlinks.