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Is there a tool to edit create hyperlinks globally? Regex preffered?

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2009-11-16 08:53:28
doggonemess
Registered: Nov 16 2009
Posts: 3

Greetings,

I'm a web developer with Anne Arundel Community College. We have a PDF based course catalog. We want to make it link within pages, so we need to add hundreds of hyperlinks to do so. We don't want to have to do it by hand (but will if we have to).

I'm looking for a tool (possibly using regular expressions) where I could find any instance of "page #", and replace that with a hyperlink to #.pdf. Now, the actual process would be more complex than that, but if there is a tool that can do this, I haven't found it.

The one thing that is a possibility is a tool called PDF Link SA from a company called Traction Software, but it unfortunately doesn't work with our document.

We're moving to Coldfusion 9 soon, but I don't know if that's going to have the PDF integration that we require to edit PDFs the way we need to.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks,
Jamie

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2009-11-24 10:06:01
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lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Have you seen any of the 3rd party plug-ins that are listed on [url=https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&storeclient=flex&nr=1&promoid=DTEGN#loc=en_us&view=ols_cat&catID=PLUG-INS&catOID=1171121&store=OLS-US]Adobe.com[/url]? I haven't tried them myself but a few offer up hypertext linking capability after a PDF has been created.

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

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2009-11-24 11:53:11
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doggonemess
Registered: Nov 16 2009
Posts: 3
If you are referring to: http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/pluginfinder.php

Unfortunately, no. None of them offer a solution. Thank you for the suggestion, though.

The more I've looked into it, the more it looks like I'll have to do it by hand. It's just a laborious process, given hundreds of links that need to be created. It would more than likely be easier to do in the source document before it's converted to PDF.
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