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2007-12-08 19:09:22
tenderloin
Registered: Dec 8 2007
Posts: 20

Long story short,
My document has to have images in it and hyperlinks that do not become corrupted!

The doc begins as an .rtfd (.rtf with images) created in TextEdit.
It seems like it has to be saved in PDF first, so i do that using command + P on the Mac. If I try to just drop the .rtdf file into Acrobat, I get a -1409 error message (is that normal?)

To get the hyperlinks to work, so far:

I can save the .rtf text document into html format and it will open in Acrobat just fine with fully functioning links. However, this does me no good since I also need images in the doc, and Textedit will only save it in .rtdf.

So then I save it in PDF format and the hyperlinks in the doc become corrupted when I open the PDF in Acrobat... I think that's what happens, but I am not sure.

Also, the links become discolored and then I have no more blue hyperlinks... ; (

"Link Tool" I looked into, but it is not even remotely related to what I am doing.

Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong?

Any advice is much appreciated!

Acrobat Professional 8/ Mac Pro/ OSX Tiger 10.4.10

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2007-12-10 07:13:22
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
You can't transfert hyperlinks from a RTFD file in a PDF. On a Mac this can be done with Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign & OpenOffice-NeoOffice (I prefer the second one since is more Mac-look-and-feel). On Windows hyperlinks can also be transferred from MS-Office using the Adobe PDF-Maker.

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2007-12-10 19:19:46
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tenderloin
Registered: Dec 8 2007
Posts: 20
Thank you so much!

I'm curious to know,
If it is possible to transfer a TextEdit .rtfd with hyperlinks to QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, or OpenOffice-NeoOffice?

I ask because all my research and files are already saved in TextEdit.

I do not have QuarkXpress, but I do have InDesign and NeoOffice.

Since I am inexperienced, and am just looking for a way to document my research saved in TextEdit files (which consists of just hyperlinks, pictures, and generic text/ layout)

I am wondering where to start if I eventually want all of it altered or preserved properly in PDF's with Acrobat...?

Thank you.
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2007-12-12 16:10:01
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Since RTFD is an Apple-only-file-format it can't be imported in Indesign, and I'd never tried in NeoOffice...

Copy/paste seems to be your only way...
(Be sure that InDesign Preferences is set to paste rich text, not text only.)

abracadabraPDF.net

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