Are your hyperlinks InDesign hyperlinks (visible in the Hyperlinks panel) or just text such as http://www.carijansen.com?
If NOT, then check the preferences for Adobe Acrobat or the Free Adobe Reader:
* In the Catagories List, click General
* Select the ‘Create links from URLs’ checkbox

Hope this helps,

Cari

I can’t get the links to work in the exported PDF. It’s really frustrating me. I’ve selected my text, added the URL in the Hyperlinks panel, made sure “hyperlinks” were selected in export settings and yet, no click able link in the PDF. I have no idea what the problem is. Any suggestions?

I’ve just tested the scenario you describe in CS5, by creating a new Hyperlink Destination for Page 3 of a document, then placing a button on master page with roll-over and click Appearance set, and then an Action that is set to “Go to Destination” Page 3.
I use Export to Adobe PDF (Interactive) for the PDF output. And I can click the button, it shows the roll-over and click appearance changes AND jumps to Page 3 on Release.

Firstly, great job! Extremely clear and concise instructions and definitely a very helpful resource. *thumbs up like*

I am working on InDesign cs5 and am a Windows user. I have created buttons that change color when you roll over and after you click as well.

These buttons are on the main menu page and are hyperlinked to various pages. When I hit the preview button on Indesign, everything is working fine, the roll over color change as well as taking me to the desired page.

When I export it as a pdf though, the roll over works but it doesn’t take me to the desired page. It stays right there.

I checked the hyperlink and bookmark boxes in the Adobe pdf presets. However, I don’t have an export button at the end of the window, I have an ‘ok’ or ‘cancel’ option. I hit ‘ok’ and then ‘done’. As a pdf though it doesn’t work. (wish I could send you a screen shot)

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Anisa

Remember that some of the blending modes only work on RGB objects, not CMYK (I haven’t investigated why this is yet, something to do with additive vs subtractive colour schemes I suspect). So it may be that the outer glow effect is not blending properly when it is over an object that is CMYK instead of RGB. (and you may need to set the colour conversion to ‘none’ in the PDF export panel)

Could it be that the blending-mode assigned to the outerglow disappears into a background tint/image on those pages? E.g. the rollover is working, you just don’t see the effect? What happens if you preview those pages in InDesign? is the effect there?

Cari

Thanks

To answer your question: no this isn’t all identical in CS3, it has separate States and Button panels if I remember correct. CS5 adds more once again. (I’ll have to make some time to write some update blogposts at some point )

InDesign’s Hyperlink feature has support for this.

On the index page, highlight a name, then “New Hyperlink”, then change Link To: Page and choose page number…

If there is a range of names that all go to the same page and they are all listed one after another, you could highlight all of them and use the same feature.

Else, you could also considering adding a “hyperlink” layer probably and drawing invisible graphic frames over all the names that say need to go to page 2, then with them all selected, choose Object > Path > Make Compound Path … and then create a New Hyperlink for this compound path.

Hope this helps.

Cari

I have an InDesign CS4 document that my client wants as PDF with an index of names that each links to the appropriate page. I can create a link for each name but there are hundreds of names but only 20 pages

Is there a way to create a hyperlink for each of the 20 pages and then just assign each name to the correct page? Or do I have to create a link for each name?

Thanks,
WZ

I believe you’ll find the answer to that question in tip (6):
http://carijansen.com/2009/03/22/tip-085/

Cheers,

Cari