Visio hyperlinks criteria for correct PDF export

Hi everybody,
I am using Visio 2010 and i am trying to understand how to create hyperlinks in order to have them correctly exported to PDF. I made two tests:
1) New project from scratch, with two pages and no layers. In the first page there is a text label with an hyperlink to the second page: it is correctly exported to PDF and it works properly
2) Working on an existing project, having 93 pages, lots of text labels and shapes organized in different layers. I tried to add hyperlinks to different objects, but when I save it as PDF all hyperlinks are lost
I can figure out what is preventing hyperlinks to be exported to PDF, I checked the manual and many resources on the internet but I still have no clue. Any idea?
Many thanks,
Andrea

Hi,
Based on my research, as for Visio 2010, adding a Hyperlink to a shape and then saving the drawing as PDF, then the hyperlink will be preserved in the PDF file when viewed with the Adobe.
And it seems cannot be done without some other PDF programs which to be told not free.
Jaynet Zhang
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