Re: OT: How to embed an html link in a pdf document

"Josef Lowder" <joe@actionline.com> writes:

> .
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Josef Lowder wrote
> >
> > Seems like I have seen this before ...
> > How can one embed an html link inside a pdf document?
> >
> > I create pdf documents in Pagemaker, then print the
> > documents to a postscript (.ps) file, then use ps2pdf
> > to convert the document to PDF. I then use 'pdftk'
> > for various pdf tasks, combine files, etc. But I
> > haven't been able to figure out how to embed a link
> > to a web page within a PDF document.
>
>
> Well, I've found a partial solution, but it still
> doesn't work quite right. By using Open Office, I was
> able to create a document with a link to a web page in
> it. However, it only works when the link is the full
> URL address. When I try to rename the link, then the
> link only works in the OO document and not in the PDF
> file exported from that document.
>
> Hummm ... How can this be corrected?
>

Not sure I follow you, Joseph. The URL has to be the full URL otherwise it won't work. It's be like me posting that I live at 123 Main St. but leave off the city and state. It would be a meaningless address.

Dennisk

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