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Hi folks,
I have a book of tweets coming out and would like to publish Kindle, ePub and PDF versions of it, which would need hyperlinks throughout to work at all. So what I need is a way to automatically convert
@Me
into
<A HREF="http://www.twitter.com/Me">@Me</A>
as it were.
There are about 1000 of them, so I don't want to have to do it manually!
I have already used a GREP style to automatically format the @text (it's always one word, so it's easy) but the automatic hyperlink tool does not seem to allow customisation of what hyperlinks look like.
Does anybody have any ideas as to the best way to approach this?
Thanks,
Ivan

Hello John... Thanks.. My problem in large part stems from the way InDesign handles hyperlinks and what happens during the pdf process.. I have been having real problems with the "shared" destination default etc.. Anyways: then I had to put in a twitter link and I couldn't find any clear description of how to do this in InDesign or the help community. I went around in circles.. The problem was with html tags.. and twitter exceptions and etc.. Anyways: the whole thing worked out after I spent many hours on the net.. mostly trying to find the right language to use to phrase the problem.. Not being a "tweeter" complicated issues.. (I had to do this for those who do tweet)... The answer, in short was this:
get a retweet button;
put retweet button in InDesign doc.
Post a tweet (in this case it was "Save the Date: HCV Training March 26, Houston TX [link to permanent pdf of the training flyer]..
Twitter will generate a short url.
In Twitter, hover mouse over post and then "More" pops up
Click on Embed
Copy Embed code
Paste embed code to text file
Make URL hyperlink for retweet button and in the Destination put: http://twitter.com/share?text=Save%20The%20Date%20Houston%20March%2026&url=http://t.co/AQV rqixC0O
Note: The above contains the message (after the text=) which must use %20 in lieu of any spaces in the text description. Then after the &url= paste the short url that you copied from the embed code.
Make sure that the InDesign link is NOT a shared destination and that it is a URL
Save file and export to PDF
As you can see... this took a while to figger out.. I found several posts on the internet but none stood alone... So here you go.

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