Hyperlinks

[davejazz]

I produce a 144 page mailorder catalog quarterly using Pagemaker 6.5 and have added hyperlinks to each page of the catalog for each of the 8000+ items.

The catalog available on our web site either as a single page download or the entire thing.

The hyperlinks of each page work well but when all 144 pages are merged into the main (complete) catalog the hyperlinks are lost within that document.

Does anyone know of a way to transfer single page hyperlinks into a master document?

Dave

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, davejazz,

You're talking about a PDF created from PM?

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[davejazz]

Yes. The individual PDF files of single pages exported from Pagemaker retain the hyperlinks but the links are lost within the PDF master catalog (150 pages) after I replace a page containing changes.

I suspect it happens during compression. The master file can only be saved a few times before I have to use the 'Save As' option and save it using the same file name as the original. (File exists ... are you sure?)

Using a text editor, the single pages display as ASCII but the master displays in hex.

It may be necessary to start with a blank document and then add pages one by one before saving this new document and then exporting it for the first time as a pdf file.

Thanks for jogging my mind with your reply.
Davejazz

 

[davejazz]

I should have posted my original question within an Acrobat forum. The two programs (Acrobat and Pagemaker) run together and I forget which one I'm in at times.

The solution in my previous post appears to work.

I loaded page001.pdf and then proceeded to insert (add) page002.pdf, page003.pdf, etc. The hyperlinks were retained through the ten page document I tested and will hopefully be retained through the all 150 pages.

Your question put me on the right track.

Thanks again.

Davejazz

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, davejazz,

In theory, using the Book Utility with Export… AdobePDF… should work and preserve all the hyperlinks into the final PDF.

In practice, it's not 100% perfect.

Your other option is to create the missing the hyperlinks in the final PDF with Acrobat.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, davejazz,

You'll get more quality responses about this issue if you post in PM Win of AdobeForums:

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html

You'll need to register to post a question, but this thread may help.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.2ccf275b/0

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.