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Subject:RE: Disfunctional hyperlinks in PDF documents From:Bostjan Chargo <bostjan -dot- cargo -at- hermes -dot- si> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:58:00 +0200
]> Bostjan Chargo wrote:
]>
]> >
]>
]> > I'm preparing a Release Notes document for a software
]> product and I'm
]> > using Microsoft Word XP (2002) as the authoring tool. Inside the
]> > document, I use hyperlinks in several places. When I
]> convert the .doc
]> > document into PDF document and open such converted
]> document in Acrobat
]> > Reader, mail and www links are normally visible, but are
]> > disfunctional. Why is that?
]> >
]> >
]>
]>
]> Can you say exactly how they are dysfunctional? Do you get error
]> messages? When you examine one of the bad links with the
]> link tool in
]> Acrobat, does the link look okay? Are the links
]> dysfunctional on other
]> machines, or only on yours?
Well, I admit I was not concise enough. When I point the mouse cursor over
such hyperlink, the cursor should (I believe) change it's shape and when I
clicked on the link, it should run e-mail client (mail hyperlink) or web
browser (www hyperlink) on that link.
In my case, neither of these happen. The hyperlink is "just there". But it
looks ok.
This happens on all machines.
Regards,
Bostjan Cargo
technical writer
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