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• • August 12, 2015 at 6:39 pm #77285
    Anonymous

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    I read through the existing threads in the forum but couldn’t find my specific problem. So here goes.

    When I use “convert all urls to hyperlinks”, it does use the shared destination (as David stated in his video). Is there a way to NOT get it to do that? Can’t I just have it be a regular URL? The URL doesn’t even work when I pull up the ePub/Mobi on my tablet. It does format it with my selected hyperlink character style, so it looks like a link, but it doesn’t have any clickability.

    The links are spelled out in full

    https://xyz.com

    When I click on “edit hyperlink”, it comes up as

    The “link to:” field is “shared destination”
    Then “destination” field is the name of the file that I copied the data from (the client’s original InDesign file, which was not set up correctly).
    Then the “name” field is the actual URL.

    I appreciate any help. Just wish it didn’t have to be so complicated.

  • August 12, 2015 at 7:26 pm #77286
    Anonymous

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    I did find a small script that allowed me to remove all of the hyperlinks and then I went back to convert url to hyperlinks and it worked correctly, although “shared destination link” is still checked. It’s not pointing back to the other InDesign file and the links actually work.

    The script is below. I found it at https://forums.adobe.com/thread/776267.

    app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.everyItem().remove();
    app.activeDocument.hyperlinkTextDestinations.everyItem().remove();
    app.activeDocument.hyperlinkTextSources.everyItem().remove();

  • March 24, 2016 at 7:07 am #83363
    Anonymous

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    I wanted to update that I am able to shift+click all the links in the Interactive–>Hyperlinks list, then pull up edit hyperlink, and uncheck “shared destination” and set their character style to “hyperlink” all from that place. Not sure why I didn’t think of that before. A script would still be great, but this is holding me over for now.

  • December 13, 2018 at 6:35 am #112877
    Kal Starkis

    Member

    Hi Melinda

    I know it’s about 3 years since you asked for a script, but I stumbled across your post when I was looking for the exact same thing… a script that would produce non-shared destinations. I couldn’t find one that I liked, so I decided to roll my own! It turned into a much bigger effort than I ever intended in the beginning, so I turned it into a commercial script (with a free demo version) that I’m just now launching. If you’re still interested, you can check it out at https://inkwire.app/hyperlinker/

    Cheers :-)
    Kal

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