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Hyperlinks

2007-08-01 15:03:02

coombsie11

Registered: Aug 1 2007

Posts: 2

I am new to PDFs and would like to add hyperlinks to URLs etc...

1. To do this do I need a specific version of acrobat?

2. Will these hyperlinks be visible / usable by others if they use acrobat readers, as opposed to a full version.

Thank you if you can help me out.

Alan.

2007-08-08 06:51:40

peppercorn

Registered: Aug 4 2007

Posts: 12

Alan,

you create links in Acrobat itself.
check the Help for "Creating Links"
you can tweak the links visibility and functionality.

HTH

Peppercorn

2007-08-08 09:57:01

PaulV

Registered: Aug 1 2007

Posts: 12

Or, if your source document already had the URLs in it, you can have Acrobat automagically transform them to live hyperlinks:

Choose Advanced > Links > Create From URLs In Document.To answer your original questions:

No. The menu path above is valid in Acrobat Pro 7, and I recall a similar functionality in v6. I'd be surprised if they've removed it from v8.

And Yes, those links will work regardless of whether the user is looking at it in Reader or Pro.

--Paul

2007-08-17 17:57:03

tedpadova

Registered: Dec 31 2005

Posts: 848

Alan,

As long as you specify a URL in an authoring program and your end users work in either Acrobat or Reader 7 and above, you really don't need to do anything. All the URLs in the original text documents appear as links in the PDF files without having to create links either manually or with menu commands. Acrobat/Reader is intelligent and recognizes the URLs in text.

—ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.