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convert urls to hyperlinks command

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    • October 23, 2013 at 8:02 pm #65930
      dufois
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      When I had nearly finished designing a large education project — a manual published as a series of downloadable pdfs ( no print budget!) — I took David’s excellent new course on lynda.com about interactive pdfs. Was dismayed to see the warning not to use the “convert all urls to hyperlinks” feature because links created that way wouldn’t work on tablets. Any workarounds, other than creating all the links by hand, or insights about Adobe fixing this issue? PDF was the perfect option for this project, since there was no question of selling the publication, and layout wouldn’t have lent itself easily to ePub. Thank you.

    • October 24, 2013 at 5:50 am #65934
      David Blatner
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      Thanks so much for watching my video title, @dufois! I’m hoping there was just a misunderstanding somewhere, because I don’t think I said that about this feature. In fact, hyperlinks in general are among the features that best translate onto tablets (most tablet pdf readers can handle hyperlinks). I have problems with the Convert All URLs to Hyperlinks feature, but it’s not that.

      My issues with this feature are primarily that it doesn’t catch a lot of web addresses that I would expect it to. For example, if I type indesignsecrets.com in my text, I would want it to get a hyperlink, but that feature can’t see it unless I add an http colon slash etc… Also, I’m annoyed that it always creates shared hyperlink destinations. But those may or may not be make or break problems for you.

      But it sounds like PDF is probably perfect for your job.

    • October 24, 2013 at 11:06 am #65941
      dufois
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      Thanks, David! I went back to the video, and I see you’re right (quelle surprise!). Sorry, but what would be the disadvantage of having all shared hyperlinks in a doc with many urls. Too big a file? or … ?

    • October 24, 2013 at 3:40 pm #65949
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Shared hyperlinks aren’t the end of the world; they’re annoying for various reasons, especially if you need to edit one repurpose your document later.

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