Saving hyperlinks when outputting to PDF

[jsl]

I often include many hyperlinks (mostly to various spots on the web) in my
Powerpoint presentations. For various reasons, I distribute my output by
"printing" my Powerpoint presentations to PDF files. The problem with this
is that it doesn't retain the hyperlink action when I output the file in
this way. Does anyone know how to get around this problem?
Thanks,
Jim

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

I often include many hyperlinks (mostly to various spots on the web) in my
Powerpoint presentations. For various reasons, I distribute my output by
"printing" my Powerpoint presentations to PDF files. The problem with this
is that it doesn't retain the hyperlink action when I output the file in
this way. Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

Yup.

Visit www.pptools.com and look at the info about Prep4PDF. There's a free
demo you can try out as well. It's our PowerPoint addin that picks up and
converts a lot of the PowerPoint features that Adobe's PDFMaker misses.

If they're truly hyperlinks and not action settings (same thing in some
cases, different in others) using Adobe's PDFMaker add-in should pick up at
least some, if not all of them. Printing directly to PDF doesn't preserve
much of anything - it's more or less like an electronic sheet of paper.
That blue underlined thing may look like a link but clicking it doesn't do
anything. ;-)