Hyperlinks in InDesign

Does anyone know if there is a way in InDesign to create hyperlinks that will open a new browser window or tab?

I would also like a solution to this problem. It seems to have been around for quite a while.

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Hyperlinks from InDesign to Acrobat

I am using CS3 programs on a PC on Windows XP
I'm trying to create hyperlinks in InDesign. When I export the document to a pdf, I clicked "include interactive elements." However, in Acrobat, it only makes the email addresses or web addresses active. The regular sentences and images that I linked are not active. Any suggestions? Thank you.

ah, I didn't notice the hyperlinks box as I was focusing on "interactive elements." Thanks!

Importing multipage Word document w/hyperlinks into InDesign

I am new to InDesign and I am trying to import a 11 page Word document with hyperlinks into InDesign. For the life of me, I can not figure this out. I try to "put" the file into InDesign but it just imports as a tiny box. Two questions:
1. Does anyone know how to import a Word document where everything is left intact - formatting, line spacing and hyperlinks?
2. Can anyone recommend a good resource for beginners? Trying to learn the software is very challenging.
Thanks in advance for our help!

Matt: The 11 pages of information from Word still have to be laid out to 11 pages (or whatever) in InDesign. The little box you're talking about is a text box you either created before the Place command (with the text cursor waiting inside it) or created when you clicked the "loaded" cursor after the Place command.
You need to resize the box and link it to other boxes for the text to flow from one box to another. This can be a fairly automated procedure once you understand how to work in InDesign; it would require that you have your document designed with, say, a Master Page design, and then different choices of click, shift-click, cmd-click do different things: fill a single text box, fill "threaded" (connected) text boxes on pages you've created, or automatically create new pages as necessary to accommodate all the info you've brought in with the Place command.
s.

Converting HTML Links to Hyperlinks in InDesign

Hi--I'm new to this forum, so forgive any newbie-ness...
Working on a pretty intense automated page layout which creates a product cut sheet based from content that is on the web (using AppleScript). One feature I'm trying to build in is to convert typical HTML href tags to an actual hyperlink in InDesign.
I'm using GREP to find all the html tags, which works very well.
What I can't do (and it might be a limitation of GREP in ID) is store the 'change to' locations as variables in AppleScript. For example, I use:
--find the href tag
set find what of find grep preferences to "(?i)(<a href=\")(.+?)(\")(.*)(>)(.*)(</a>)"
--change to the stuff in the href=" " and the text I want to keep
set change to of change grep preferences to "$2 $6"
What I NEED is the ability to make $2 and $6 variables.
Any advice, tips, hints, tricks, and/or help?
Thanks all!

Sorry, it's been a while since I solved this, so its not too fresh. There may be pieces missing. Here's the exerpt of what I did to change real html marked-up text (which contains hyperlinks) into real, clickable InDesign hyperlinks. In a few words, I found the html hyperlinks in the text, and "marked it up" with my own "xml" type language (for later). Then I think I made an array of every link and location, then had InDesign go through and convert to hyperlinks.
---CONVERT HREFS TO HYPERLINKS------------------------------------------------------
    set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
    --FIND HYPERLINKS
    set include footnotes of find change grep options to false
    set include hidden layers of find change grep options to false
    set include locked layers for find of find change grep options to false
    set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
    set include master pages of find change grep options to true
    set find what of find grep preferences to "(?i)(<a href=\")(.+?)(\")(.*?)(>)(.*?)(</a>)"
    --set find what of find grep preferences to "(?i)(?<=<a href=\").+?(?=\")"
    set change to of change grep preferences to "<url>http://www.mywebaddress.com$2</url> <linked text>$6</lt>"
    set applied character style of change grep preferences to nothing
    tell specSheet
        change grep
    end tell
set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
    --FORMAT HYPERLINKS
    set include footnotes of find change grep options to false
    set include hidden layers of find change grep options to false
    set include locked layers for find of find change grep options to false
    set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
    set include master pages of find change grep options to true
    set find what of find grep preferences to "http://.+?(?=</url> <linked text>)"
    set change to of change grep preferences to ""
    set applied character style of change grep preferences to nothing
tell specSheet
        set myFoundItems to find grep
        set linkURL to get myFoundItems
    end tell
    set find what of find grep preferences to "(?<= <linked text>).+?(?=</lt>)"
    tell specSheet
        set myFoundTextLinks to find grep
        set linkNames to get myFoundTextLinks
    end tell
    set masterList to {}
    set numItems to count of linkURL
    set n to 1
    repeat numItems times
        set end of masterList to {item n of linkURL, item n of linkNames}
        set n to (n + 1)
    end repeat
    tell specSheet
        repeat with currentLink in masterList
            set hyperLinklocation to item 2 of currentLink
try
                set hyperLink1 to make hyperlink URL destination with properties {name:item 2 of currentLink as string, destination URL:item 1 of currentLink as string}
            on error
                set hyperLink1 to hyperlink URL destination (item 2 of currentLink as string)
            end try
            try
                set hyperLinkText to make hyperlink text source with properties {source text:hyperLinklocation, hidden:false, applied character style:character style "hyperlink"} --name:item 2 of currentLink as string,
            on error
                set hyperLinkText to hyperlink text source (item 2 of currentLink as string)
            end try
            try
                make new hyperlink with properties {destination:hyperLink1, source:hyperLinkText, hidden:false} --name:item 2 of currentLink as string}
            on error
                make hyperlink with properties {destination:hyperLink1, source:hyperLinkText, hidden:false}
            end try
        end repeat
        --set linksDone to "true"
    end tell
    set myFoundItems to {}
    set myFoundTextLinks to {}
end tell
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
    --REMOVE MARKUP -URLS FROM COPY
    set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
    --Set the find options.
    set include footnotes of find change grep options to false
    set include hidden layers of find change grep options to false
    set include locked layers for find of find change grep options to false
    set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
    set include master pages of find change grep options to true
    set find what of find grep preferences to "<url>.+?</url> "
    set change to of change grep preferences to ""
    tell specSheet
        change grep
    end tell
    --Clear the find/change preferences after the search.
    set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
    --display dialog "URL text deleted."
    --LINKED TEXT TAGS REMOVAL AND CHARACTER FORMAT
    set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
    --Set the find options.
    set include footnotes of find change grep options to false
    set include hidden layers of find change grep options to false
    set include locked layers for find of find change grep options to false
    set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
    set include master pages of find change grep options to true
    set find what of find grep preferences to "<linked text>|</lt>"
    set change to of change grep preferences to ""
    --set applied character style of change grep preferences to "hyperlink"
    tell specSheet
        change grep
    end tell
    --Clear the find/change preferences after the search.
    set find grep preferences to nothing
    set change grep preferences to nothing
    --display dialog "Linked text tags removed, style applied."
end tell

I want to bring in text from Word (and the web) that is already hyperlinked into InDesign. How do I do it while keeping the links active?

I want to bring in text from Word (and the web) that is already hyperlinked into InDesign. How do I do it while keeping the links active?
Whenever I copy/paste from web or Word it removes the hyperlinks. And when I try to do it by "Place"ing a Word document into my InDesign project it keeps the formatting with it, the rectangles around the text.
I have the latest version of InDesign.
Any help is appreciated.

Copy-and-paste may not include formatting. A regular import using Place is the best way.
The rectangles around the hyperlinks are just to indicate they are links -- they do not print, but they do show up in your PDF.
You can remove them by double-clicking the hyperlink in the Hyperlinks panel and select "Invisible Rectangle" as type.
Typically, Word hyperlinks are formatted -- blue text, underline -- with a Character Style. If you want to remove or change the formatting, all you have to do is change the character style. My experience, though, is you must check all hyperlinks because for no apparent reason sometimes they appear in the document without the character style.

Need help with hyperlinks in InDesign CS3 to PDF

I've done everything I can see in the forums, in the InDesign help and in InDesign for Dummies... but other than spelling out the entire URL in the text (IE where you can see it in the document) I cannot get a URL hyperlink to work after exporting it to a PDF file. The sample document I used does show the link in the hyperlink pallette... I can even use the "forward" and "back" to identify the link in the document and actually open the link online from there. But - the link is not working in the PDF file. What am I doing wrong? I'm totally confused. Normaly, I figure these kinds of things out and this one seemed to be simple/straight forward.
Thanks!

If you're not using tagged PDF, then use it. If you are, disable it. Also, make sure you're fully patched to 5.0.4.
Bob

Display issue when using hyperlinks in Indesign

Hello all,
I have a InDesign document with a generated table of contents which is linked to the corrosponding pages. This part works great.
But if i make a hyperlink in de Header or Footer of my document to go bact to the TOC page i encounter a very nagging issue. The link works fine but not matter wat i do the page displays at 6400%. Their are various display options to choose from when linked to a page but nomatter which i choose the display always up at 6400%.
Anyone with idea's

Have you already tried recreating the preferences file for InDesign? Command+shift+option keys pressed and launch InDesign for Mac. Control+Shift+Alt keys pressed and launch InDesign for Windows.

Adobe DPS Hyperlinks in InDesign 2014

I'm starting to play around with InDesign 2014, and noticed that the hyperlinks panel works differently than it did in CS6. It's great because it gives a green light when the website is linked properly. However, when I go to convert my hyperlinks through "Hyperlinks and Cross References--Convert URLs to Hyperlinks" it doesn't keep the http:// in the hyperlinks panel if the web address in the text doesn't already have an http://www. The links link fine when I try them from InDesign, but as soon as I move it over to test in Adobe Content Viewer on my iPad, the it won't link properly.
Is there a quick fix? Am I missing a step?
I do know that in order to text in Content Viewer, I have to set my folio version number to 31. 32 is not supported by Content Viewer. (Not sure if that has something to do with it)

Did you explicitly define the in the Hyperlink panel? Or only in text?
Set up them correctly in the Hyperlink panel.
Acrobat is reading out Hyperlinks depending on version and settings, but only when you set it up in InDesign’s Hyperlink panel you will get correct results.

Hyperlinks in InDesign Okay But Not in PDF is this an Acrobat Issue?

Hi,
I'm working on my first project in InDesign....interactive PDFs/ebooks. I've entered my links in the ID file (CS6) in two different ways...the first with the "htpp://" prefix and the second with just the address and ".com". (no www.). I've noticed that my version of PDF works when I export as print, and specify hyperlinks. My coworker, working with the same file, will not generate some of the hyperlinks, and I'm guessing they are the ones WITHOUT the http prefix. (The link that appears instead is "resource://pdf.js/web"). My general question...have you run across this? Is this an Adobe Acrobat Pro issue (I have version 10)? The links are correct in the ID file.
I can generate these PDFs, so I'll be able to finish my project on time, but thought I would throw it out to the community in case anyone has run across this.
Thanks!

Did you explicitly define the in the Hyperlink panel? Or only in text?
Set up them correctly in the Hyperlink panel.
Acrobat is reading out Hyperlinks depending on version and settings, but only when you set it up in InDesign’s Hyperlink panel you will get correct results.

How do I dynamically create a hyperlink in Indesign with vb

Hi, does anyone know how to create a dynamic link to Indesign with vb? I'm coding a catalog from Access database with images and would like to make an "Enlarge image" hyperlink while generating the page. Somehow I seem to have no luck in my code. Thanks for any suggestions.

As simple as it sounds to create hyperlinks with VB into Indesign CS4 it really took time and effort to finally
come up with the solution. With the kind help of Max Dunn an old InDesign scripting bug with VB was discovered responsible for this. But if you split the job into two parts it can be done.
First make the document without hyperlinks in VB by putting the URLs in script labels on each graphic frame. Then in Indesing run a post-processing script in JavaScript that iterates through the graphic frames, and for each, if it has a script label, set that as the URL for hyperlink.
Here is how I did it in Indesign.
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
for(var myCounter = myDocument.rectangles.length-1; myCounter >= 0; myCounter --){
alert(myCounter)
var myRectangle = myDocument.rectangles.item(myCounter);
var myLabel = myDocument.rectangles.item(myCounter).label;
try{
myHyperlinkURL = myDocument.hyperlinkURLDestinations.add(myLabel);
myHyperlinkSource = myDocument.hyperlinkPageItemSources.add(myRectangle);
myHyperlink=myDocument.hyperlinks.add(myHyperlinkSource,myHyperlinkURL);
myHyperlink.visible=false;
catch(myError){

Creating hyperlinks in InDesign for epubs

Hi everybody,
When I view epub files in Adobe Digital Editions, the hyperlinks I create in InDesign all have a blue underline. The text color, red in this case, appears just fine. The underline is being applied by the epub reader, or so it seems. Is there anyway to eliminate this in InDesign, perhaps using character styles, etc.?
Thanks so much for any help you can provide. I'm using the latest edition of InDesign, CS5.5.
Kind regards,
Mark

Fun Seeker wrote:
Hi everybody,
When I view epub files in Adobe Digital Editions, the hyperlinks I create in InDesign all have a blue underline. The text color, red in this case, appears just fine. The underline is being applied by the epub reader, or so it seems.
Well, some do. You'll have to test -- the ADE viewer isn't really designed to give a 100% perfect view of what your document would look like on the real thing.
In any case, there isn't much you can do from within InDesign to prevent it. You would need to edit the CSS (and if you have to ask what it is or where you can find it, you are in real trouble ...) and then there is still this little itty bitty issue that you'd need to check on each of the devices you hope someone is going to view your book on what it really looks like. There is a world of difference between actual CSS support for the current batch of ePub hardware.
On the other hand, you could also take it for granted because everyone is used to seeing something blue and underlined and thinking "hey, I bet it's a hyperlink", and you wouldn't want to disappoint everyone.

Hyperlinks in InDesign and Exported to PDF Open with %%%

Hi,
I am working on a document for our intranet. I have created a link inside of the InDesign document for a document that is accessible on our network:
K:\Master Documents\O & M's\(ID) Files\O&M Static Files for Booking\2-2_Troubleshooting.pdf
When I PDF my document, save it to the intranet location, and then try to launch the link, the following dialogue box opens
What is up with all of the % signs? And how do I get the lnk to actually work properly?
Thanks!

Hi Michael, I did take out all special characters, there were underscores anyway not spaces :=} no ampersands, or anything like that.
I have InDesign version 6 and Windows 7, I also upgraded to Adobe Reader 9.2, but I think that has nothing to do with the export functions of InDesign. I was thinking I would try and reset the preferences back to default, see if that helps. Perhaps I ought to also try and install an updated Adobe Acrobat version?
What's weird is that there are hyperlinks to URLs via http:// all over the document, that work fine. Its the file:// prefix that is not resolving at all. I even tried to select URL and then type with forward slashes file://server/folder/folder yet that didn't yield any result -- actually InDesign changed the classification of the hyperlink from URL back to file. When I repro, sometimes I get a dialog that says the file is not available, sometimes I get no response from the system, meanwhile the tooltip displays the correct file path. It might be that Windows 7 which recently applied updates to my computer (it a work computer so my IT dept is the owner of updates) is doing something odd due to firewalls or something. I am going to check into this on Monday.
Cheers,
Amy

Hyperlinks in Indesign/PDF

I created a newsletter in Indesign and used the hyperlink function to link some text and photos to certain items. I was able to link web addresses and an e-mail address with no problem. However, I linked a photo to a file on my computer. Bottom line is when you click on the logo the event flyer opens up! I exported it to Acrobat so I could email it as an attachment. Once in a PDF format, I clicked on the logo and received errors and the file wouldnt open up. I then used the PDF link tool and reset the file to the logo. When I tested it, it worked fine. However, when I emailed it to myself to assure it sent properly.....I'm now not able to open up any of the files attached to the logos (other than web/email addresses). Is there a trick to linking hard drive files (which are PDF files) to where they arent lost once sent by email? Please help!
Thanks,
AW

Yeah the logo is part of the PDF. But I want the viewer to click on it to view a flyer that is not on the web. Would I need to just add the flyer as a page and link it that way? I didnt want to ruin the flow of the newsletter with the flyers not in the same scheme. I guess I could always place them in the same scheme and create another page!
AW

Hyperlink target Indesign CC Interactive PDF

Hi,
We're working on an Interactive PDF but strangely enough we suddenly can't work with hyperlink targets anymore. This means we can't make certain objects a hyperlink target so we can't navigate
through the document as we were used to. Any idea of how this is possible and what we can do about it?
Kind regards,
David

I usually start by creating my Hyperlink Destinations by choosing New Hyperlink Destination from the Hyperlinks panel menu.
Then I create my hyperlink. In this case I started with a text frame:
I chose to link to a Shared Destination (although you don't have to):
You can test this in InDesign when the Hyperlink is selected:
When you test it in your PDF, be sure choose File > Export > Adobe PDF (Interactive) so the hyperlinks will be properly exported.

How to automatically make twitter @name fields into hyperlinks in Indesign?

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.

Hyperlinks in InDesign

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