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Embedded links in PDF not working

rway
Registered: Jul 7 2007
Posts: 4

I'm sure this is not the first time this question has been asked, but here goes again.

I created a Word doc with embedded links, i.e., highlight some word or phrase and make it a link. I also simply pasted full URLs into the doc also. The embedded links do not work. The full URLs do. To get the embedded links to work, I have to go into Acrobat 7.0 Professional, highlight the text and create a link. What a pain in the butt when you have 31 documents with a gazillion links....

I have looked all over the Internet for a solution, and obviously I'm not coming up with the answer, otherwise I wouldn't be here. The closest thing I found to solving the problem was to use iPages 2 (Mac program). You open the doc in iPages and then export it as a pdf. Supposedly it works, but I don't have iPages 2, and probably won't buy it because I use about 4 different machines.

Does anyone know what the issue is here, or of a free workaround for this?

Thanks,

Raleigh

BKBouvier
Registered: Jul 2 2007
Posts: 3
The following works for Acrobet Standard 7.0:

In MSWord, Choose "Change Conversion Settings" on the "Adobe PDF" menu.

On the "Settings" tab, find the "Application Settings" area.

The box next to "Add links to Adobe PDF" should be checked.

Hope this helps!
rway
Registered: Jul 7 2007
Posts: 4
Thanks for that info. I have Professional 7. I'll give it a try.
AB76
Registered: Mar 8 2010
Posts: 2
If you go to your Adobe settings in work.
Go to "Change conversion settings".
The last tab is called "Bookmarks".
Tick all three options here.

I did this and my links in PDF worked.