Links to work in pdf

I have a multi page document. I want to link a url to the file and have it work once I make a pdf. how do I do this?

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Hypertext links not working after pdf conversion

I have a document that contains many hyperlinks to external PDF files. Not sure if I created the link correctly to start with, but when I save the book file as a pdf none of the links to the external pdf files work. I entered the location of the files as the marker tex as shown ../Vendor_Data/Show/vendor_manual.pdf not sure if I need anything in the hypertext field. can someone assist. the directory structure is: c:\techpubs\Frame\files.fm the vendor data is c:\techpubsVendor_Data\data.pdf.
Thanks

> ... many hyperlinks to external PDF files.
What Marker type?
> I entered the location of the files as the marker text as shown
>../Vendor_Data/Show/vendor_manual.pdf
Why is "/Show" in that path?
> ... the directory structure is:
> c:\techpubs\Frame\files.fm
> the vendor data is
> c:\techpubsVendor_Data\data.pdf.
You are missing a "\" after "techpubs", and the pdf names don't match.
I presume that even when you get that working locally, you are aware that it won't work whenever the calling and called files don't have exactly the same directory-relative relationship. This further means that if consumers of your documents make local copies, they also have to recreate that local directory structure, which typically they won't.
Using fully qualified URLs instead of relative path references is more stable, but of course always forces the reference to use the web.

Pages '13 not all web links not working in PDF

Hi
I am having a issue with a document created in Pages 2013.
The document I have created is four pages long and on 1st page I have a hyperlink (text) to a You Tube page.
On page 3 of the document I have another piece of text with a hyperlink to the same You Tube page which works fine inside Pages but when I export to a PDF the link does not work/translate as a URL link. Just a piece of undelined text.
I have tried deleting the text and retyping it then turning into a hyperlink but does not work.
Anyone else come across this issue.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for that.
Problem is when I export to Pages 09 the formating is thrown all over the place. So it takes just as long to reformat the document as it orginally took to create.
Was just hoping someone may have come a work around.
Thanks again.

Links between two separate PDF documents - one as reference for another.

Hello, everyone.
I have a special project that I believe would be best addressed with the creation of two independent but linked PDF files. Let me be more detailed.
My plan is to create a PDF file as a text document. In this text document there will be numerous references to documents and articles that I intend to place in a second PDF file. I would like the user to be able to open the text document PDF on the left side of his computer screen and also open the reference PDF with documents and articles on the right side of his computer screen. Every time the user comes across a section of the document that offers a link to an external reference the user would be able to click on it and the PDF on right would display the page corresponding to the reference on the PDF on the left. I hope this makes sense.
Is it possible to create PDFs with this type of relationship ? I am guessing that in order for these links to work both PDFs will have to reside in the same directory so that the links (relative links in this case) may work properly. Is this true ? How can I make this work and is there a good document I can read or tutorial I can watch that would describe this in detail ?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello, try67.
Considering what you share I don't think this solution is the right one for me. I am trying to find a simple solution that would allow me to accomplish this task. Considering it would require scripting or programming the solution has just become more complex than what I feel I can comfortably handle.
Thank you anyway for your help.

Table of Contents links not working after conversion to PDF

I have created links in a MS Word 2007 document, including in a Table of Contents, a List of Tables, as well as internal cross-reference links. I have converted to a pdf file using Acrobat 9 Pro. All the links were retained except for the page links in the Table of Contents. Does anyone have any insight into how to correct this error?

MG,
You can get links to work in Numbers documents that have been converted to PDF, but it's quirky.
No links survive Printing to PDF
Links outside of tables (links in text boxes, etc.) survive Export in Sheet View
Links inside and outside tables survive export in Page View
Regards,
Jerry

Pdf link dont work if document open in separate Acrobat window in internet explorer

Hi,
We have many pdf with different links between this pdf. The link type is "Open a file".
- If the fist pdf document is open from hard drive this links works perfectly.
- If the pdf document is open from the web site (http://website/doc1.pdf) and adobe reader is configured to open pdf in internet explorer it work also.
- But if the reader is configured to open pdf in a external window this link dont work. The link try to open the second pdf in c://Internet Temporary Folder/ as root instead of http://website/
Does anyone know a workaround ? I don't know if my customers have configured the reader to open in internet explorer or in a external windows...
Thanks for help !

If web browser integration is turned off, it really is turned off.
Adobe Reader simply becomes a "helper" application. The browser
downloads the file, puts it somewhere, and runs Adobe Reader. Adobe
Reader is not told anything special about the file and its origins, so
it cannot know that this was (before the download) a web file, or
where it came from.
A URL link might be the answer.
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Acrobat 9 pdf links not working from InDesign CS3. What is wrong?

My links are working in my 40 page Indesign CS3 file using Mac. After I convert to a .pdf, some of the links are no longer going to the right location. They have either duplicated other links, or trying to take me incorrectly to my desktop or network. Can't figure out what is wrong.

Links meant to go to an outside website are supposed to be filled out in the following format : http://www.phillipmjones.net
in Acrobat should look something like : This is my personal website
In Acrobat go go create you link then click on action:
(I'm using my own personal website as an example)
If you choose something else such as open a file then that is what it does.

How can I hyperlink from FM to an external document and make the links work in PDF-XChange Viewer?

A couple of months ago some of you kindly taught me how to insert links to an external document in FrameMaker. The syntax that made all the difference, was the following:
message openfile "H:/folder name/to/your/file.ext"
I converted my FrameMaker file to PDF format using Acrobat Distiller, and everything worked like a charm when the users opened the resulting PDF document in Acrobat Reader.
Much to my frustration, someone has now decided that the organisation should use PDF-XChange Viewer instead of Acrobat Reader, and my links don't work anymore... Nothing happens when you click on them. (This only applies to links to external documents. Links to e.g. websites work nicely.)
Has anybody got any idea what I could do to make the links work in PDF-Xchange Viewer as well? Or am I trying to do the impossible now?
Best regards
Jorunn

Jorunn H wrote:
A couple of months ago some of you kindly taught me how to insert links to an external document in FrameMaker. The syntax that made all the difference, was the following:
message openfile "H:/folder name/to/your/file.ext"
I converted my FrameMaker file to PDF format using Acrobat Distiller, and everything worked like a charm when the users opened the resulting PDF document in Acrobat Reader.
Much to my frustration, someone has now decided that the organisation should use PDF-XChange Viewer instead of Acrobat Reader, and my links don't work anymore... Nothing happens when you click on them. (This only applies to links to external documents. Links to e.g. websites work nicely.)
Has anybody got any idea what I could do to make the links work in PDF-Xchange Viewer as well? Or am I trying to do the impossible now?
Best regards
Jorunn
Have you tried contacting the PDF-Xchange company's technical support? What results?
Regards,
Peter Gold
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PDF and FLV links not working

I have a course that’s made up of a series of hyperlinked swfs and html files. There are also some flvs and pdfs in this. We had to design it in this format (vs. pdf or exe) because of our customer’s special requirements. To try to make a long story short, our company now wants to put this course on a CD-ROM to show customers, however, they do not want to have to make the customer do that extra little step of setting the Flash security settings to accept the external site. Anyway, that is the background, and here is my problem.
I have created two new “marketing” versions that contain a snippet of the course – a PDF version and an EXE version. Here are the problems with each:
1. The exe format works great, except there is a button that links to a PDF, and that link, even though the PDF is present in the same directory, does not launch the pdf.
2. The PDF version has two problems. I have a FLV that does not play (despite it being in the directory), and I also have a button (same one as mentioned above) that launches another PDF, and that PDF does not launch.
Any suggestions?

Hi Kristi
I have something that may help here. Please send an E-Mail message to rstone75 (at) kc (dot) rr (dot) com and list the exact file names of the files you are linking to.
Once I have the actual file names, I can send you back some files that you can try to use for accomplishing the linking. Additionally, I'll want to know the exact relationship the files have. For example, will they simply be in the same folder as your project? Or will they perhaps be in a subfolder. And if a subfolder, the exact name of the subfolder.
Cheers... Rick
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I just converted a document from Word to PDF and the URL links don't work.How can the links to work?

Anyone know how to get the links to work in a PDF that was converted from Word?

Then the problem originates from Microsoft Word; you should ask in the appropriate Microsoft Office forum.

PDF external links not working

I have succesfully linked to PDF's on my site in the past, but there are now a select few that are coming up as "The requested URL http:// was not found on this server." when clicked on.
I have deleted, resaved and relinked them, even changed their name. But this warning still comes up even after I "put" the page and "put" the document from the folder it is located.
When I test the page through Dreamweaver everything works, but not when I got to the site. I have tried the site in both Safari and Firefox.
What am I missing??

I had the same problem today with a new computer and new installation of Adobe Acrobat.
I discovered the solution that worked for me. I am not sure where the setting is located in Adobe Acrobat but if you are using Word 2007 this is where I found it.
Open the document you wish to convert in Word
File > Save as > PDF
Click on the Options button
Tick under PDF options at the bottom - ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A)
OK
then click the Publish button
I then uploaded to the web and the links still worked.
I decided to google " ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A)" and am wondering it this might be something to do with the Save As option rather then using the Print option I haven't quite determined if that is the case but I found this article which might explain any questions - http://doknir.blogspot.com/2006/08/word-2007-docx-and-iso-19005-pdfa.html

How do I make links work in PDFs on ipad?

How do you make links work in PDFs on ipad?

I downloaded your "test.pdf" file. First I tested it on a Mac in Acrobat and the links worked fine.
Then I transferred it to my iPad and opened it in Reader 10.3. The links worked fine. When I clicked OK to the message I quoted above, they took me to the site in Safari browser.
It could be that you need to reset your iPad. Hold down the Home button and Sleep/Wake button at the same time. Hold then thru the message about turning it off, until you see the Apple logo. Then let go.
Relaunch Reader.

Can I save a powerpoint that has links in it to a pdf so that the links still work?

I have a power point that has hyperlinks as well as links to other power point slides. I want to save it as a pdf and the links still work.

You cannot save word files to pdf using reader. When you click a link (in Reader or in the browser using the Reader plugin) you open the url in your browser (what browser)? We need detailed information to help.

Links Not Working/Not Clickable in Exported PDFs? FIXED!

If you, like me, use Pages to create doc s and then export them to PDFs, the non-working links are a pain. But, after 20 minutes of playing around, I found a fix!
1. In the new version of Pages, export your document to a Word doc. Save it soemwhere on your computer.
2. Right-click on that Word doc in the Finder, Choose Open With > Pages (4.1) [Or just open Pages 4.1 yourself, then use File > Open and choose that new Word doc]
3. The old version of Pages opens your doc. Choose File > Export... and choose PDF. File will save where you choose, links active and working just like old times.
This is my first discussions post and hope it's useful! Let me know that it wokrs for any of you.

I, too, have been struggling to resinstate hyperlinks in PDF documents made from Pages - or even to create links within Preview. All this used to work fine until my recent upgrades, and I used it a lot.
So far I have found that links seem to work in PDFs created in the new Pages 5.0.1 but only in the first page of a document, whereas PDFs made from the old Pages 4.3 (iWork '09) seem to fare rather better.
So I suppose the conversion back to 4.3 would be a sensible course of action. Intriguingly, 5.0.1 does not seem to have replaced 4.3 on my hard drive, even though I trashed the icon for it on my Applications folder (before I realised that I would still need it)!
Apple doesn't seem to have made any statement about this so far, apart from a promise to restore functionality to Pages, but there does seem still to be a problem with Preview, or perhaps with the OS itself. I can't add links directly to PDFs in Preview. And even links created in Microsoft Word are not carried over into PDFs - not even on the first page.
I continue to experiment, but am frustrated by the loss of such an important and useful facility. Preview used to do most of what I needed for sharing documents; now it is sadly inadequate. Apple has boobed badly here.

IWeb • How Do I Make Links in an Embedded PDF Document Open in New Page?

On this page http://ostyn-newman.com/Gov_Downloads.html I have a PDF document that is embedded. I tried an IFrame, but everything seemed to work better for me with the "Embed" code. I am open to changing this if it would be better. Here's my problem. I can get the PDF document to display fine, but when I click on the links in the PDF document, the destination page opens in the embedded window. I want the links to open the destination in a new window.
I created the part of the document with most of the links (Pages 8.5 - 56) in Numbers and cut and pasted the table into a Pages document to create the completed document on our site. I exported the docuemnt from Pages as a PDF file which is what you see. There is also a link to download the file on the same page which works just fine.
I have tried to insert the target="_blank" code but have not been able to get it to open the destination pages in a new window. I am inserting the code by using the Insert/Widget/HTML Snippet Feature in IWeb. Here is the code I am using.
<embed src=
"http://ostyn-newman.com/Media/GS27F0026XTextfile.pdf"
style="width:850px; height:1000px;
border-width:0px;
border-color:#FFCC66;
border-style:solid;"
scrolling="auto" >
</embed>
I am not a coder and have just used Google to find the code to cut and paste and have played around with it to get to the place I am. If anybody can tweak the code I have or offer some totally new code for me to insert that will get this to work would be greatly appreciated.
Please keep in mind that most of the people who visit and use this page are government employees and are almost exclusivey using Explorer.

Thank you Jeff,
I tried your original suggestion and now my inserted html widget reads
<embed src=
"http://ostyn-newman.com/Media/GS27F0026XTextfile.pdf"
style="width:850px; height:1000px;
border-width:0px;
border-color:#FFCC66;
border-style:solid;"
scrolling="auto" target="_blank">
</embed>
It is live on my site. You can see that the embedded document still opens the destination links in the embedded window.
As for your other two suggestions, thank you as well. I am aware of those techniques and did not use them because that is not how I want the other PDF links on the page to behave. The catalog and autocad blocks downloads in the box at the top should simply download (or behave however the client's browser is configured to handle downloaded PDF documents or zip files.) I don't intend to force those to open a new window. I could also have our client click on a link to the PDF document and open it in a new page (like in your second suggestion) but I was hoping to embed the PDF and have it automatically viewable on our Download • Terms • Prices Page with all of the PDF search functions intact as well as the links be active. My only complaint at this point is that the links in the embedded PDF document open the destination page in the embed window instead of a new window. I only want to force a new window because the destination window doesn't behave properly when it opens in my embed window and it is difficult to figure out how to go back to the my PDF document when a destination window gets opened in the embed window. The code you sent didn't do the trick. Or maybe I didn't get it exactly right. That is why I included it above. Thanks for trying though. I appreciate the effort.
I would be willing to bypass the imbed/iFrame route altogether if I could just somehow drop the Pages document into the IWeb page and retain the search and link features, but I've not been able to figure out how to do that. When I was exploring how to directly drop a Pages document into an IWeb page is when I stumbled on the method of embedding a PDF document into an IWeb page to retain the important search and link features.

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