Publisher 2000 hyperlinks unstable

[josh page]

I have been using Publisher 2000 to build a web site. Each page of this
Publisher document (web site) contains a long text block and many words in
the text block are inserted hyperlinks each of which calls up an image
residing on another web site. The Publisher web site gets updated regularly
which often results in the following problem. On one or more pages that were
UNTOUCHED by the update all the hyperlinks beyond a certain point in the
text block no longer work. I check the URLs and they're all correct . When
viewing the web site the non-functioning hyperlinks that the browser shows
me look ok, they're underlined and the right color but the hovering mouse
arrow never changes to a pointing finger. I can fix this problem by removing
one of the non-functioning hyperlinks and then inserting again. This results
in all the non-functioning hyperlinks in that text block working again.
Unfortunately, this problem happens all the time and its driving me crazy.
I'd really appreciate any help.

 

[DavidF]

Josh,

Could you provide some specifics on how you are writing and inserting the
hyperlinks? Can you provide a link to a page on your site where this
happens? Are you perhaps linking the text boxes together so that excess text
flows to the text box on the next page?

DavidF

 

[josh page]

Thanks a lot for replying, David,

Yes on some pages I am linking several text blocks on the same 72" page. I
adopted this strategy because with one very long text block I found that
near the bottom of the page the hyperlinks weren't aligning well with the
words on the monitor (you had to click a quarter of an inch above where the
monitor said the hyperlink was). But I tested the linked text blocks and
made them work ok.
Go to http://www.illusproj.pagebooks.net/page4.html then go down to Seven
Little Rabbits to find a nonfunctioning link. At
http://www.wiese.pagebooks.net/ you'll find a page with linked text blocks
that works perfectly.
Again I really appreciate your help.

Josh

 

[DavidF]

Josh,

Interesting...thanks for the examples.
http://www.illusproj.pagebooks.net/page4.html is working as I would expect
with a Pub 2000 web page and http://www.wiese.pagebooks.net/ is not. I say
this because on page4 the text that contains the Seven Little Rabbits link
has been converted to an image: http://www.illusproj.pagebooks.net/img21.gif
, but the second page also has had some text converted to an image:
http://www.wiese.pagebooks.net/img2.gif and the links are still active on
the page...hummm. Generally textual links will be killed when converted to
an image. Never the less, if you can find out why the text is being
converted to an image I suspect that you will find your answer. And in case
you don't know this, you can test the text by a left click drag across the
text and try to select it on the web page. You won't be able to select it if
it has been converted to an image.

If you look at the http://www.illusproj.pagebooks.net/page4.html and the
http://www.illusproj.pagebooks.net/img21.gif then you can see that the
Return to Index Page text box is included in the combined image. Did you
overlap the Return to Index Page text box with the text box that contains
the Seven Little Rabbits? Generally if you overlap design elements in Pub
2000 it will convert those elements to a combined image. Also you have a
lot of extra empty white space at the bottom of the page. Publisher 2000
truncates a web page after the last design element on the page regardless of
how long the Publisher page is, so the other question is what do you have on
your Pub page below the Return to Index Page text box?

I guess I don't understand what you meant by the hyperlinks not lining up
with the text, but perhaps that is not important. You also didn't describe
how you were inserting the hyperlinks as requested, but perhaps that also
isn't important. Also I don't think that just linking the overflow text to
another text box on the same page should convert the text to an image, but
it might if the text boxes are on two different pages. What is important is
to discover why the text is being converted to an image. What design
technique are you using that does that? If it involves the text box linking
to each other, then you will need to find an alternative. If it is
overlapping one or more elements, that is a simply matter of moving one of
the elements such that it doesn't overlap. Once again, even though the links
still work on the second page example you provided, they shouldn't and
probably will fail somewhere along the line. Find out what you are doing to
convert the text to an image, and you will find the answer...I think ;-)

If you have an example of the hyperlinks not lining up with the text, please
post a link to that. If you can't figure out what your text is being
converted to an image, post back...sorry I don't have an immediate answer
for you.

DavidF

 

[josh page]

David,

Your answers cleared everything up. All my problems were do to overlapping
text blocks which were being changed into gifs. (Although I still don't
understand why that hyperlink which was converted into a gif still worked)

Thank you, thank you, thank you,

Josh

 

[DavidF]

That is good news...thanks for posting back. And as I implied, I don't know
why it actually worked on the one page...one of those mysteries.

DavidF