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Live links in PDF, How?

by TKO
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Gday Warriors,

How do you get your links to work when you convert your ebook to PDF?

For some reason the anchor texts look like links, but they are not live.

Thanking you in advance.
#links #live #pdf
  • Profile picture of the author InternetSuccess001
    Use Adobe Acrobat PRO 9 (or equivalent). If you are using a (free) method of printing a to a PDF printer, they will not make the links live (because the software believes you are trying to print to a printer).
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  • Profile picture of the author RNMKR
    Actually ... This very forum has a free alternative to those...

    Its called WarriorPDF, I think... check it out here: http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-printing.html
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    • Profile picture of the author Blase
      I use Adobe, but I think you get live links
      when you use Open Office.
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  • Profile picture of the author Raygun
    You can also go here and all the links will work just fine, PDF Converter - Convert to PDF Online Free

    I use it all the time
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    • Profile picture of the author Sam101
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      Originally Posted by Raygun View Post

      You can also go here and all the links will work just fine, PDF Converter - Convert to PDF Online Free

      I use it all the time
      Thanks for the link, however it does not convert image links. I inserted a BUY button into a doc file (with the link to my shop) but this link gets stripped off.
      I wonder how to work around this.

      BTW I have MS Word 2007 and you can directly use "Save As" to save the doc file as a pdf. The text anchor links also remain intact (unlike some other converters)---however the image links do not work in the pdf.:confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author rayx
    doc2pdf (online tool) and open office are what I use... the anchor text links always work for me - plus it's really easy and fast to create pdfs with these
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    • Profile picture of the author imintern
      If you are using MS Word / PowerPoint or Open Office you can insert hyperlinks in the document, they will look like and more importantly would be live links and perfectly clickable when you convert the document to PDF. But you need to have Adobe Acrobat for that. Acrobat also has extensions for MS Office (Word, PowerPoint etc.). However these are paid solutions.

      Now let's see if we can do it using free tools. Well, it turned out to be quite easy. Go to Google Docs and create a document there which have hyperlinks in it. You can also upload your documents if you wish.

      From the File menu select Download As and finally select PDF. Save the PDF file to your hard disk. Open it and you will find the link is live.

      I have an example for you.

      This is the document I created -
      Code:
      http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhpbxm5_0d27mtrcq
      And you can view / download the PDF (which I uploaded back to Google docs for sharing) converted by Google Docs

      The PDF -
      Code:
      https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9AJl-oqPzR2ZmIyYWNkNmItZTFjNi00Nzc4LWEwYjItNWU2MTQyMzdkNDhm&hl=en

      The links are live (when you download the file) in the PDF. Now you can play around a bit with formats and designs to get the desired result.

      For some unknown reason (probably related to security) the link does not appear to be live in IE8 but it works perfectly in Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
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  • Profile picture of the author iw433
    I use open office. Make the links live in open office and then export to .pdf and BAM! your links are live in pdf.
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