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    • February 1, 2018 at 2:17 pm #101363
      Vishal Kyatham
      Member

      Hello,

      I was hoping someone could help me with this issue:

      We are creating a manual in InDesign with multiple documents that are hyperlinked. This is not on any network. Ultimately the customer will get the manual in PDF format with multiple hyperlinks to various documents. The issue is that the documents are only opening on the computer in which it was created. Is there a way to export the InDesign file to PDF with all document links intact?

      Thanks,
      Vishal

    • February 1, 2018 at 2:31 pm #101365
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      So you want to make a link inside one PDF that will open another PDF? That is possible… I wrote something up here about this, but I think we will be publishing a newer method by Keith Gilbert soon:
      https://creativepro.com/making-relative-hyperlinks-to-files-in-indesign.php

    • February 1, 2018 at 2:42 pm #101366
      Vishal Kyatham
      Member

      David,

      Thank you for your quick response.

      The issue is different. We have an InDesign file with external links to documents which are on the hard drive. Once we move this file to a different computer those external links are not opening. Even if we have the same files on the other computer, due to file path it is still searching for the old computer. Is there a solution for this? File->Package did not work. I am sure this was discussed before, so any links or help is greatly appreciated.

      Customer cannot open InDesign file, so we export the InDesign file to PDF and give that as an ultimate output. Sorry for the confusion.

      Thanks again.
      Vishal

    • February 1, 2018 at 3:02 pm #101368
      Randy Susick
      Member

      Vishal

      Are you saving the files ad PDF(interactive)?

      Randy

      • February 1, 2018 at 4:03 pm #101370
        Vishal Kyatham
        Member

        Randy,

        Yes. I am saving it as an interactive PDF.

        Thanks,
        Vishal

    • February 1, 2018 at 3:42 pm #101369
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Vishal: Yes, you need relative links instead of absolute links. Relative links are “relative” to the position of the document; absolute links are the path on any one particular computer.

      However, the bigger issue is that this is very difficult. PDF is not a very good “file management” tool. This is not what PDF was designed to do.

      • February 1, 2018 at 4:04 pm #101371
        Vishal Kyatham
        Member

        David,

        Thank you. I will try it later today. Found your post on relative hyperlinks.

        Thanks again.
        Vishal

    • February 1, 2018 at 6:16 pm #101372
      Graham Park
      Member

      David
      The relative links will work when all the files are placed on the new machine.

      Would it be worth considering placing all the PDF that are linked to on a public webserver and then hyperlink to them there? That way only one file have to be sent to the customer and there should be no issue with the links [not working.

      Just a thought.

    • February 6, 2018 at 3:30 pm #101502
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Here is a newer link on this subject that should be very helpful:
      https://creativepro.com/creating-relative-hyperlinks-in-indesign.php

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