I know that a PDF file opened in Acrobat or Adobe Reader will automatically read properly formated web addresses as links such as "www.mywebaddress.com" or "http://thehomelyloaf.blogspot.com" but it won't if the "www" is left off.
The editors here at work say the corporate style guide says to leave the "www" off. They say that is a growing trend.
Is it a growing trend?
If that is the case then the feature in Acrobat that reads web address as links will be of no use.
Just an aside, but you gotta grin at this as the trend followers often are not the ones who implement.
Regardless, there's a way to have your link and no http:// or www in the text.
- use an authoring application that supports Adobe's PDFMaker -
- have the PDFMaker is configured to carry through links -
Then author without the http:// or www and lay down the link over the text that contains the http://.Otherwise, with no "http" or "www" Adobe Reader or Acrobat is not going to recognize a link's presence.
Say you use MS Word, enter "Adobe" and use the hypertext feature to create a web link. Enter "http://www.adobe.com/"
Might want the text to be some color.
The PDF will have ...text ...text [color=blue]Adobe[/color] text... text...
with the PDF Link annotation over [color=blue]Adobe[/color] text.
The Link annotation's "action" is to go to http://adobe.com/
Mouse hover over the link and you'll see the URL.
Be well...
Be well...