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Hyperlink failure on last pages of PDF (exported from InDesignCS)

Per Bill@VT from the Acrobat Forum, I'm posting my Acrobat/InDesign question here as well. I thank you in advance for any possible assistance:
Hello. I have a 211-page catalog I've created in InDesign CS in which I have created hundreds of Hyperlinks (for Export to a PDF for CD distribution). I exported the file to Adobe PDF using general, automatic, medium compression settings (150 ppi) -- the CD's main purpose is for viewing. All the links work great on every page of the PDF except on the last two pages, 210 and 211 (there is nothing different on these pages than any other). The links on page 211 all jump to page 210; links on 210 go nowhere. Even the links set on the master pages don't work; the URL links on page 211 also go to page 210.
I wondered about it being a capacity issue in Acrobat 7. The InDesign file is 190MB; the exported PDF file is 42.3MB. If capacity is the issue, any suggestions that might help? In some cases, the names of the Hyperlinks throughout the document are long (parts of sentences); would that be causing a problem?
Has anyone ever encountered this issue?
Any assistance is most greatly appreciated.
Operating System: MS Windows 2000
InDesign CS
Acrobat 7 Pro
Here is Bill@VT's response:
Bill@VT - 5:31am Jun 5, 08 PST (#1 of 2)
I think the export feature in InDesign is a feature of that product and not Acrobat. Thus you will need to ask in that forum. There are folks here that may know because they also have InDesign. The long link names and potential problems suggests that you have an option in the export incorrectly selected and you are actually not using links. Acrobat will try to interpret things it sees as links as such (like WORD and other products) but may not get them right if they are strange links. In such a case you have 2 options: 1. Be sure you have the proper feature selected for exporting the links (so they are included) or 2. Fix the links so they satisfy proper URL formatting. For instance, spaces are not standard in links, even if MS products like to use them.

I think the export feature in InDesign is a feature of that product and not Acrobat. Thus you will need to ask in that forum. There are folks here that may know because they also have InDesign. The long link names and potential problems suggests that you have an option in the export incorrectly selected and you are actually not using links. Acrobat will try to interpret things it sees as links as such (like WORD and other products) but may not get them right if they are strange links. In such a case you have 2 options: 1. Be sure you have the proper feature selected for exporting the links (so they are included) or 2. Fix the links so they satisfy proper URL formatting. For instance, spaces are not standard in links, even if MS products like to use them.

Indesign CC failure in Find/Replace action!

I have been suffering of Indesign crashes since 2011. Usually it is happening when I do some kind of Find Replace action. When I click the Search body to view smth (Find format), sometimes Indesign falls down.
I thought mostly it is a bug of CS6, but now I'm on CC and good morning Eliahu - all these problems are still here.
What should I do? It is imposiible to suffer such failures year after year. It happens on all kinds of OS and computers.

thanks for reply
1. again, both PC (7) and Mac (Maverick)
2. 10.1.0.71
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InDesign Hyperlinks not updating when book is packaged

We create a 220 page product catalogue using an InDesign book.
The book contains about 40 documents for each section and the contents page uses Hyperlinks to jump to the sections and back to the contents when exported to PDF.
All of this works perfectly.
We then create a second version of this book by simply packaging the book (so we can reprice for the NZ market)
When we package the InDesign Book to create the second version of the catalogue, the Hyperlinks don't update to link to the version 2 documents.
So after you have packaged version 2 and you open the contents document and view the Hyperlinks window, all of the hyperlinks are there, but when you Click To Open Destination it opens the version 1 document?
We then need to manually go through and relink all of he hyperlinks.
I would expect the hyperlinks would update in the same way Links do after packaging?

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Indesign hyperlink issue

hi there
i got a user that create a document pdf in indesign with hyperlink
when she create the document and do a print pdf in the indesign the hyperlink seems to be cut off .
is there a way that indesign can keep the hyperlink without cutting out ?
Did she do something wrong ? she also told me that othere people in the office do the same and it's working
any idea why the hyper link is incomplete ?
Thanks

hi again
yes when sghe do a save as the hyperlink is trunked there a missing part letsay she enter www.something.com
she get something linke www.somet
and the link doesn't work
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InDesign: Hyperlinks funktionieren nicht

Hallo zusammen!
Ich habe in InDesign ein Dokument erstellt. Dieses enthält Hyperlinks, die URLs und Email-Adressen als Ziel haben.
Wenn ich das Dokument jedoch als swf-Datei exportiere, funktioniert kein einziger Link. Das Vorhandensein eines Links wird mir zwar durch die Hand angezeigt, wenn man daraufzeigt. Aber anklickbar ist gar nichts.
Hat jemand 'ne Idee, woran das liegen kann?

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InDesign - Hyperlink funktioniert nicht

Hi,
ich habe folgende Links:
„Hurra, ich werde Vater!“: http://itunes.com/apps/hurraichwerdevater
Alle Apps von Webducation http://itunes.com/apps/Webducation
und diese als Hyperlink in inDesign erstellt. Leider findet er den zweiten Link nicht. Kennt jemand das Problem?
lg

Am 01.09.2014 um 11:36 schrieb Doc Maik <[email protected]>:
InDesign: Verpacken funktioniert nicht
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An der Größe des Katalogs? Eher daran, daß es die "notwendigen vverknüpften Dateien" nicht finden kann. Vorher mal Preflight gemacht?
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Why do imported hyperlinks from Word not show up in Indesign Hyperlinks panel?

ID CS6 Windows 7
I am able to copy and paste hyperlinked text from Word into ID and everything works ok-- when exported to PDF the links work fine.
except now client wants to rename the text of the hyperlink- but there seems to be no way to even see what the URL destination is.
None of the Word links show up in the Hyperlinks panel.
I have to find out the URL and delete the original linked text and redo them.

Um. Are you not talking about proper URLs? I kind of assumed you were :)
Actually, hyperlinks *should* import just nicely into ID, not only plain URLs but also those with alternative text. But if they do, they'd show in the hyperlink panel ...
Can you check if they are mentioned in the Hyperlink Destination list in your ID document? That would confirm or disprove they are actually present, at some level.

Can you set InDesign Hyperlink default selections?

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[CS6][JS]XML cross-ref to InDesign hyperlinks

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I'm trying to import xml and create hyperlinks with xml cross-references for tables, figures, and references. So i'm planning to create a script to select the certain xml elements and create hyperlink destination based on id attributes value then search for all xml elements citation in the body pertaining to those elements then create new hyperlink and link to them. Can you point me to the right direction please.
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-CharlesD

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I started something and I hope it might be of interest to somebody:
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var myRefs = myRoot.evaluateXPathExpression("//ref");        //references element
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var myXrefs = myRoot.evaluateXPathExpression("//xref");    //citations element
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createAllDest(myTagsToLink);
createLink(myXrefs);
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//function that will create the new hyperlink destination
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        try
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            var myType = whatTag[i].xmlAttributes.itemByName("ref-type").value;
            var myDest = whatTag[i].xmlAttributes.itemByName("rid").value;
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            myHyperlinkSource = myDocument.hyperlinkTextSources.add(myContent);
            myDocument.hyperlinks.add(myHyperlinkSource,myHyperlinkURL,{name: myDest});
            //alert(myDest);
            if (myType == "bibr"){
                //alert("This is reference");
                myContent.appliedCharacterStyle = "ref-citation";
            else if (myType == "fig"){
                //alert("This is figure");
                myContent.appliedCharacterStyle = "fig-citation";
        catch(e){}
// Create new hyperlink destination function
function createDest(whatTag){
    for(var i=0;i<whatTag.length;i++)
        try
            // select the text of the element
            var myContent = whatTag[i].texts[0];
            // get the id of the destination
            var myAtt = whatTag[i].xmlAttributes.itemByName("id").value;
            // add the id of the destination to the list of the document's text hyperlink destination
            var anchor = app.documents[0].hyperlinkTextDestinations.add(myContent);
            // set the text's hyperlink destination's name to that of the id
            anchor.name = myAtt;
            //alert(myContent);
        catch(e){}

Keynote hyperlink failure in iweb

I have created a flash file in keynote, then exported it to iweb .... all works fine; except for any hyperlinks that were created with the file. These seem to disappear when it gets exported into iweb. The only solution that I've found is to create an invisible box shape over the subject once it's been exported, and then enable that as a hyperlink. However this doesn't cause the arrow to change to a hand, which is what I want.
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I also have this problem. It's an InDesign CS5 multi paged document that I have exported to Flash. The links are to other web pages.
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Unchecking "Shared Hyperlink Destination" causes InDesign CS5.5 to crash

This occurs on multiple Macs (running either Leopard or Snow Leopard) in our office. The links are connected to conditional text in InCopy. Here's the scenario:
1) Open the InDesign document and select the linked text.
2) Get a dialog box: "You must check out the contents of this frame in order to make changes. Check out now?" Click "Yes."
3) Copy the text of the link, right-click and select "New Hyperlink."
4) In the "New Hyperlink" window, paste in the text of the URL (leaving in the http://).
5) Uncheck "Shared Hyperlink Destination." InDesign immediately crashes.
I've been told by our designers that you have to uncheck "Shared Hyperlink Destination" to prevent changes to all of the other related links in the document. I don't work with InDesign on a regular basis and have very limited knowledge of InCopy. I tested the current version of InDesign (7.5.3) on my Mac and the same crash occurred.
Here is the first part of the crash report:
Process:         Adobe InDesign CS5.5 [6458]
Path: /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS5.5/Adobe InDesign CS5.5.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign CS5.5
Identifier: com.adobe.InDesign
Version: 7.5.2.318 (7520)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [3125]
Interval Since Last Report:          4473638 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           38
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 2159305 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   15
Date/Time: 2012-05-03 12:29:26.452 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 14200E2C-6A0E-4571-B96F-268BF9F135D1
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ...e.InDesign.Hyperlinks Panel      0x23929fa5 GetPlugIn + 117525
1 ...e.InDesign.Hyperlinks Panel      0x2392b103 GetPlugIn + 121971
2 ...e.InDesign.Hyperlinks Panel      0x2393f28a GetPlugIn + 204282
3 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework            0x19697e37 GetPlugIn + 45687
4 ...adobe.InDesign.AppFramework            0x196983f9 GetPlugIn + 47161
5 PublicLib.dylib                  0x01786b49 CSubject::Change(IDType<ClassID_tag>,

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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:
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set find what of find grep preferences to "(?i)(<a href=\")(.+?)(\")(.*)(>)(.*)(</a>)"
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set change to of change grep preferences to "$2 $6"
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---CONVERT HREFS TO HYPERLINKS------------------------------------------------------
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    set include locked stories for find of find change grep options to false
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    set applied character style of change grep preferences to nothing
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        set linkURL to get myFoundItems
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    set find what of find grep preferences to "(?<= <linked text>).+?(?=</lt>)"
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        set myFoundTextLinks to find grep
        set linkNames to get myFoundTextLinks
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    set masterList to {}
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        set end of masterList to {item n of linkURL, item n of linkNames}
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        repeat with currentLink in masterList
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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}
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            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,
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                set hyperLinkText to hyperlink text source (item 2 of currentLink as string)
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            try
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    set include master pages of find change grep options to true
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    --display dialog "URL text deleted."
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Create Hyperlinks that open in new tab or window?!

Hello,
Ok, so, this has been asked other times for many versions of InDesign and most common response is to do it in Acrobat Pro. WHY?!!!! I couldn't even easily figure out how to do it there and frankly, don't want to. That seems so backwards and tedious to have to do...seriously. How is this not an option in InDesign Hyperlink edit creation/options yet?!! It is SO simple. Please tell me I'm missing something... I love Adobe products and especially CC products that are getting better and more time saving...but this is so dumb, I'm sorry. I'm no smarty software engineer but I know what user friendly is and how things should work for everyone...and it seems like an easy thing to make possible. Many people create PDF's in InDesign for viewing/downloading in a browser and this needs to be an option with-in InDesign CC. Simple as that. When the PDF is opened in Acrobat the links do open in new tab/window but NOT when it is viewed in a browser. This is why I should or maybe shouldn't work for Adobe, I wouldn't let little things like this, that actually makes a big difference in user experience, go unnoticed and unchanged over so many new releases and updates...or ever be taken away. I guess I'll put in an InDesign CC features request...
Thanks to anyone who agrees and relays...or lets me know I'm missing something.
Andy

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

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