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2009-11-23 08:57:15
johnstonia
Registered: Nov 23 2009
Posts: 4

I have created a PDF from a MS Word document and automatically stored bookmarks at the chapter level during the process. The document is over 500 pages and I am needing to add hyperlinks to several chapters so that I can add links on our Web site to to direct visitors to specific chapters.

I am running Acrobat Standard 9.0 and MS Word 2003.

To create the link, I am opening the PDF, highlighting the selected text, right clicking, and selecting the create link option. Selecting web page page and am directed to add the URL. This is where I get confused. Is this URL correct?

Link text

Once uploaded to the web, I get a "Webpage can not be displayed" error.

I had seen a post that stated there was a bug in version 9 in creating hyperlinks. So, don't know if that is the problem, or not.

Questions -

Is it possible to automatically add a hyperlink to the Word document as I am processing the bookmarks?

If not, where am I going wrong on the link text?

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2009-11-23 13:55:07
#1
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Quote:
Link text
The above is appropriate for working in HTML.
However, PDF is not HTML
To lay out a web URL in Acrobat use:

http://cityofjohnston.com/city-code/documents/2007JohnstonCode1109.pdf
(The HTML anchor tag is not applicable in PDF.)
The #page=7 does comply with what Adobe discusses in the "PDF Open Parameters" document
so it ought to work.

fwiw, I place a link in a test PDF using Acrobat 9 Pro Extended.
Used your URL with the #page=7 & the link work as expected (right to page 7 of the PDF).[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters_v9.pdf]The PDF[/url]
(for version 9, file [i]pdf_open_parameteres_v9.pdf[/i])

Using MS Words Hypertext feature, a properly formed URL (using no resticted characters (one of which is the space character - discussion available at W3C' site) and Adobe's PDFMaker you can create links in the MS Word file that will be present and working in the output PDF.

From past trials I've had little success with using PDF parameters placed in Word or Excel.
One thing I've noticed is that MS Office applications interpret the "#" for something specific to the MS Office applications so the "pass through" to Acrobat gets whacked. You can always post process the links in PDF to add the PDF parameters.

About Bookmarks. Office "bookmarks", particularly MS Word bookmarks are not at all the same thing as PDF Bookmarks.

Be well...

Be well...

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2009-11-24 14:21:03
#2
lisakatd
Registered: Nov 24 2009
Posts: 4
I've created hyperlinks to websites in a PDF document. I have 6 links in the document, when I go to Advanced > Weblinks > Create weblinks from document, it says only 1 was added when there are 6.My main major issue though is when I click on the links it opens TWO browser windows for every single one. So say I have a word that's linked to www.google.com, it will open one browser window with google.com and another browser window that just says connecting (and never does). It opens these in IE 7.

I tried #1 adding the links in the Word doc and converting to PDF = Links do not work in PDF at all. Solution - removed links from Word doc created PDF added links in PDF with the tool = now links are still opening 2 windows. Why is this happening?
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2009-11-24 14:35:17
#3
lisakatd
Registered: Nov 24 2009
Posts: 4
I can send a test document to someone if that would help. I have one made so you can see what I mean.
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2009-12-31 07:55:29
#4
johnstonia
Registered: Nov 23 2009
Posts: 4
Am getting closer to a solution.

Actually, the link will just be imbedded in the text on the Web page, not directly in the PDF. So, as I understand the link should be -

http://example.org/nameofpdf.pdf#page=3
Where page=3 indicates the page you want to link to.

Another option:
http://example.org/nameofpdf.pdf#bookmarkname
Where bookmarkname is the name of the bookmark created in the pdf, can't contain any spaces.

I got it to work a couple times. I get an error, but once clicking on the OK, I am able to bypass the error and I will be directed to a page within the PDF.

Today in trying, I am getting an, "Page Not Found," error.

Any suggestions?
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