Hi, I have a report that contains a hyperlinked field in MS Access 2003 that I am trying to export to Acrobat 8 Professional. The links don't work unless the link display text is the URL itself. Is there any way that I can make the links work and not have to display the website names, which will be incredibly long? The display text is what we really want, as that is what is informative, not the website address.
THIS WORKS:
display text is http://www.google.com
hyperlink is http://www.google.com
THIS DOESN'T WORK:
display text is Exhibit 1
hyperlink is http://www.google.com
We want to be able to keep the display text as Exhibit 1, etc., and have that be the text that is clickable in Adobe, and have the link go to the website. I have tried this using PDFMaker as well as a different PDF writer. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jen
The only way to obtain "extras" in a PDF output from MS Access is via the Adobe PDF Maker (installed with installation of Acrobat Standard/Pro).
"Printing" to PDF sends content directly to Distiller which will not provide "extras" in the output PDF.
Looking at the PDF Maker associated with MS Access I see no setting for making links (such as is found in PDF Maker associated with MS Word).
So, the initial output PDF has no links.
Even, if Adobe PDF Maker's "Create PDF" is used.
That you have links provided for "http://...." or "www.example.com" comes from a default configuration
feature of Acrobat that recognizes such text strings are generally associated with web links and so,
creates the web link automatically to provide greater end-user usability.
While I've not look close, there might be something in Adobe's
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdfmark_reference.pdf]"pdfmark Reference"[/url]
Or, you may be able to do something with the output PDF, after creation, with Acrobat JavaScript.
You may want to check at the AUC's [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewforum.php?id=25]JavaScript Forum[/url].
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