Re: Hyperlinks in PDF -- should they be visible or not?

[Craig Haiss <craighaiss -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Yes, I'd definitely format the links if the PDFs are viewed electronically. In fact, you may want to go a step further and use the same formatting for those hyperlinks as you do in your help. If your help links are underlined blue text, use underlined blue text for the PDF links. The consistent presentation will help your users identify hyperlinks more easily when they switch back and forth between the PDFs and the help topics.

Craig Haiss
Blog: http://www.helpscribe.com


--- On Tue, 1/19/10, Viv Crawford <viv_crawford -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:

> 
> I'm inclined to think that it's more useful to have a
> visible hyperlink as users are more likely to read the
> manuals on screen -- and if they are reading a hard-copy
> version, they've printed it themselves, so in theory
> shouldn't mind that there are visible hyperlinks. 
> 
>  
> 
> Should I change them to be visible? How do others handle
> this? 



      

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