Not All Hyperlinks Working When Converting To PDF

[mashby]

I'm running Office 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5 and when I create a PDF
either by printing, or via the PDFMaker, not all of the hyperlinks are
being converted in the PDF. Some are, just not all.

All of the hyperlinks are to external URLs with the proper format
(http://www.) and all were created with the PowerPoint Hyperlink tool.

I did try Prep4PDF
(http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/prep4pdf/index.html) and that made
all the hyperlinks work, but the work I'm doing this for is a volunteer
group, thus there's no budget for Prep4PDF.

Anyone have any suggestions of how I can fix these hyperlinks?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Prep4PDF would be my first recomendation because it extend's PowerPoint's
short fall in this area. The 2nd option would be to go into the document
using Acrobat Distiller (or other PDF editing app) and manually add the
links (either by highlighting text and programming link or creating hotspot
links over the text/image).

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm running Office 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5 and when I create a PDF
either by printing, or via the PDFMaker, not all of the hyperlinks are
being converted in the PDF. Some are, just not all.

All of the hyperlinks are to external URLs with the proper format
(http://www.) and all were created with the PowerPoint Hyperlink tool.

I did try Prep4PDF
(http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/prep4pdf/index.html) and that made
all the hyperlinks work, but the work I'm doing this for is a volunteer
group, thus there's no budget for Prep4PDF.

Anyone have any suggestions of how I can fix these hyperlinks?

How many of them are there? Sometimes it's simplest just to recreate them in
Acrobat using the Link tool. Out of curiousity, what's the volunteer group?

 

[mashby]

Out of curiousity, what's the volunteer group?

It's the Nashville Palm Users Group (http://www.npug.org). We hold
monthly meetings and do PowerPoint presentations for them. We began
posting them online for our members as meeting notes and so the links
are one of the most important parts.

I didn't realize that there was a problem until a member pointed it
out. So I have to go through them all and track down the culprits. It's
a PITA to say the least.

Prep4PDF did a great job of fixing everything, but it's a shame that
you need a 3rd party product to fix what Adobe should have working in
the program itself.

It catches some of them, just not all, so it means having to go page by
page to check them all and compare them to the PPT to make sure I get
them all.

Is there even an alternative PDF tool that does this sort of thing
better? I've tried PDFCreator, but there's no Office tool. I just wish
there was an easier fix.

Thanks again for everyone's help and suggestions.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

It's the Nashville Palm Users Group (http://www.npug.org). We hold
monthly meetings and do PowerPoint presentations for them. We began
posting them online for our members as meeting notes and so the links
are one of the most important parts.

I didn't realize that there was a problem until a member pointed it
out. So I have to go through them all and track down the culprits. It's
a PITA to say the least.

Prep4PDF did a great job of fixing everything, but it's a shame that
you need a 3rd party product to fix what Adobe should have working in
the program itself.

It catches some of them, just not all, so it means having to go page by
page to check them all and compare them to the PPT to make sure I get
them all.

Download FixLinks at http://fixlinks.pptools.com
It includes a free link report tool that'll at least get you pointed at the
needed fixes.

Also, email me at steve at-thingie pptools dot com about this. I have another
thought that might help.

 

[mashby]

Thanks Steve!

I'll try FixLinks and I've already sent you the e-mail.