Embedding PDFs with live hyperlinks?

Hi Everybody-
I was originally updating my site just by copy/pasting text into textboxes on my site, but I have run into a lot of formatting issues between FF, Safari, and IE...surprise surprise.
So...I want to just take all the text I plan to add each day, turn it into a PDF and just insert the PDF onto one of my pages. This works great and relieves me from the formatting nightmare. However, almost everything I will be adding has a hyperlink along with it. When viewing in Preview or Adobe, all the links are live, but when I insert the PDF into the webpage, users can not click the links.
Is there a way to enable hyperlinks for the PDFs I am embedding?
Thanks!

"Preview in Firefox" means all PDF files are processed through and rendered by the Firefox PDF viewer.
As you have noted this in-built PDF viewer is somewhat less than ready for prime time (similarly with the in-built PDF viewers available with other contemporary browsers).
Eventually these browser vendors may deploy something that actually has some greater measure of ISO 32000 compliance.
Until then always configure all browsers used to make use of what is provided with an install of Adobe Reader or Acrobat.
Be well...

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