How to script "Convert URLs to Hyperlink" in CS5

So InDesign CS5 offers a new feature to "Convert URLs to Hyperlink". Does anyone know how to invoke this feature via JS?

You can invoke the menu action. It is in fact a script, so it's a script menu action...
FWIW, the feature does not work 100% so be careful...
Harbs

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On the page layout the same URL comes in 2 lines. Only the URL till https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Set+Up is clickable, but the following URL is not clicable in PDF.
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Thanks Ellis for the sugesstion but we have to convert all the Hyperlinks Manually and its taking lot of time.
I have found a Script from http://kasyan.ho.com.ua/make_hyperlinks_from_urls.html.
But there is a little problem.
When I run this script its converting the URL to Hyperlink, but its changing the original URL text present in the Indesign file.
Can this script search for a specific URL character style and convert it to Hyperlink by retaining the Original text in Indesign.
For Example:
The Original URL in Indesign file is this:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Connecting+JIRA+to+a+Database
When I run the script its changed to:
confluence.atlassian.com
Please help me.

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I would say this is certainly a bug -- InDesign should not produce an URL in a hyperlink destination. If it detects it as a destination, it should do whatever is necessary.
Anyhow, this is easy enough to fix via a script (untested)t. Try this:
var
    i,
    hls=app.activeDocument.hyperlinkURLDestinations;
for (i=0; i<hls.length; i++) {
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        hls[i] = 'http://' + hls[i];
That is, loop over all the hyperlink destinations (hls) in the document, and check to see if each one does not contain ://. If so, prepend "http://" to it.
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The original Hyperlink path, established in the MS Word files has as the target file some *.doc file.
Edit Hyperlinks, in MS Word, to change the target file(s) to the appropriate *.pdf file.
As a guess, I'd say someone familiar with MS VB might be able to come of with something to do the change programmatically.
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I need Help Please..........
I am fairly new to Java and really new to Reg Exp. I have a String that has normal text and may contain a URL. I would like to display the URL as A hyperlink using JSP.
Can anyone help.

This is actually not that hard, if you know where the text is located? Using the regex you can find the beginning and ending pattern of text that you are looking for. Then extract the data and put it into a variable. add stuff to it if you need by concatenating it like: "http://"+variable+".com" what every you need.
something like this will help.
String page = new String("");
          String inputLine;
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A complete review can be found here, but basically, you can't. CS4 was the last version that was able to generate INX - the format was replaced with IDML. You must export IDML with CS5.5, open that IDML in CS4, then export INX from CS4.
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I have a Java Applet which makes a line graph of data. The data source is to be streaming, where the first chunk of data comes from what is already in a data file, and then new data is sent whenever it is ready. The problem in brief is that if I just collect and show the data from the data file and do not stream everything works fine. If I also have the streaming and wait for a long time, everything works fine, but when the applet is first loaded, the graph is not shown until after a long delay time.
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2) Wireshark sniffing shows that data sent out by the PHP datasource on the server is sent immediately, and is not buffered (am using ob_start(), ob_flush() and flush() alls in the PHP script).
3) On Windows Vista, using Internet Explorer or Firefox, there is a constant 30 second delay before the Applet returns from this line: InputStream is = url.openStream();
4) After this 30 seconds, data appears in the Applet, but it can be seen also with java console debug prints that the data seems to be buffered. The newest data shown in the Applet is not the newest data sent to the client by the PHP datasource script.
5) On a SUSE Linux client, the Applet works as it should, there is no delay time in showing the data.
It appears as if there is on Windows a buffering of data which I do not wish to have and which does not occur on Linux. I need to find out how to get the URL openStream() call to return immediately allowing the initial data to be read and shown on the Applet. And I need to remove the buffering of data so that the data can be shown on the Applet when it arrives.
Can anyone help? Why does this work on Linux but not on Windows, and what can I do, at best within the Java code, to get the Applet to work on Windows as it does on Linux?
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