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

[Josef Lowder]

On 18 Apr 2008 14:19:34 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote
> "Josef Lowder" <joe at 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

Yes, I have used the full URL, and that works in one example 
but not in the other after combining several pdf files with pdftk.

For example, if you go here: http://www.AV7.org/down2.pdf
you will see a test example that works. 

However, when I use pdftk to combine down1.pdf down2.pdf and down3.pdf 
to create this next example, the exact same module no longer works:

 -- http://www.AV7.org/download.pdf