Hyperlinks don't activate in the PDF file

Hello all:
I'm working with Pages (v. 1.0.2) and cannot get the text hyperlinks (going to URLs) to work. They work in the Pages app. But when I Print > PDF > Compress PDF, the created file has blue underlined text all right, but when I hover over these links, the cursor doesn't change to a hand that activates the hyperlink(s). Incidentally, although text hyperlinks aren't active on these PDFs, one email hyperlink I've set up on that same PDF DOES work. Go figure!
What might I do to activate every text hyperlink? (If valuable, is there a way to attach the PDF on this Apple Discussion forum for testing purposes?)
T, ia.
Warren
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

{quote:title=tmboone wrote:}Here's a snippet of what it's adding "Boones%2527%2520News" It should just read "Boones%27%20News"{quote}
The numbers with % marks get inserted when you use non-"web-safe" characters in your hyperlink. Web addresses are generally best if they only have letters, numbers, forward slashes, and simple punctuation (e.g., - or _). If a URL has a space in it, that is generally converted to %20 (this is known as "escaping"). A single quote would be converted to %27. An actual percent sign would be shown as %25 in a URL. (You can see the codes by looking in the hex column of the table at http://www.asciitable.com/ ).
I think what is happening in your case is that you are beginning with a legitimate with URL with %20 and %27 codes in it. But then somewhere in the process it gets "escaped" again, and the % marks each get converted to %25. Sounds like a bug somewhere between Pages and the PDF writer -- the text is getting escaped twice, and the second time shouldn't happen. You might want to report this to Apple as a bug.
In the mean time, you can make prettier and more reliable URLs by avoiding those weird characters entirely. For example, you could stick in underscores (_) instead of the spaces and single quotes in your original filename, and then it will sail through with no trouble.

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