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links on some PDF's

richardm93
Registered: Jun 27 2009
Posts: 7

Hello Group:

new to the forum and have been reading some articles on here concerning links. but dont see anything relating to my question.

we do a magazine and we use adobe photoshop CS and acrobat 7 pro to do everything. i have noticed that in some of our things we build thet when veiwing in acrobat the when you hand over some URL's they show the website and some dont. some are even in the same ad that we build. not sure whether it is the part we build in photoshop that is the problem or what. also some ads that the customer builds also dont have the URL's there. i do know that i can use the link tool to add the links whether it is the URL's or e-mail address but im trying to see if we can do something different to save a little time or better yet understand what is making some show and some not. we do do an upload to a service that changes the PDF's to the new flip book format and there software picks up the links on everything except a picture. so that makes me think it is something in photoshop that is the culprit. anyway i can work around it but if i can do something to make it better im al for that.

Thanks!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0, Windows
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Can you post an example? Do you have the Preference "Create Links for URLs" on in the General preference category in Acrobat?
Do you get any consistency if you use the command Advanced > Document Processing > Create Links for URLs in Acrobat (I'm not sure of the exact menu command location in version 7).Do your URLs have any periods or spaces? Have you updated to the latest version of Acrobat 7?

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

richardm93
Registered: Jun 27 2009
Posts: 7
thanks for the reply
dont see a place to do an attachment for the pdf page. do have the create links on in preference. on the page im talking about it has one link created but right next to it the url isnt hot. what i call hand over is when you are using the hand tool it shows the link. like i said i can go in and manually make it hot but just wondering why some are hot automatically and some are not
Thanks!

Richard
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
You can post your file (free) on Acrobat.com and then reference the URL here.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

richardm93
Registered: Jun 27 2009
Posts: 7
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=add43477-b744-4211-8d95-9df88e95811a

ok i hope i did it right. keep in mind we use photoshop, indesign to actually build ads with then we convert to pdf's

Richard
richardm93
Registered: Jun 27 2009
Posts: 7
you may have to download the page to see it. but the top two ads the one on the left should show linked when you hand over it but the one on the right doesnt.. clear as mud?

Richard
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Hi Richard,
Just a nattering thought here, but...
It looks like the link you laid with InDesign got truncated (in InDesign).
I've had that happen with FrameMaker when I fail to "drop" a Hypertext marker into/at start of my selected text.
Result, in the output PDF, is a truncated link "foot print". Sometimes only a character in width.
Your 2nd (right) link is similarly truncated which spawned my thought of "Well, maybe... "Be well...

Be well...