Add hyperlink recompose document

Question

Hi,
I receive documents from a third party company that uses specific hyphenation plug-in of their own.
I have a script that adds hyperlinks using :
     - linkDestination = myDocument.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add
     - linkSource = myDocument.hyperlinkTextSources.add
     - then myDocument.hyperlinks.add(linkSource, linkDestination, {name : hyperLinkName});
It causes the recomposition of the text with different hyphenation as I do not (and shall not) have the specific hyphenation plug-in.
Is there a way to create hyperlinks without the document being recomposed (in fact no text or style has changed, there is no need to recompose) ?
Regards,
Lionel
PS : I use indesign CS5.5

Answer 1

Yeah, much to my dismay I saw this happen on otherwise complete documents: adding a simple XML or hyperlink markup -- which should have been fully transparent to the actual text -- suddenly made the text re-compose.
A possible solution for Lionel is to create rectangles on top of the text, and assign the hyperlinks to these instead. These rectangles could be created on a layer of their own, so they can easily be removed if the text gets edited.
A small drawback is that you can measure bottom, left, and right of text -- but not the top! However, you can sort of fake it: make the rectangle one leading amount high and move it down by about a 1/3th of its height (eyeballing result).