Print to PDF loses hyperlinks

[Fatfreek]

I'm trying to create a photo album which I'd like to distribute to relatives
who have computers. I think it'll fit on a CD but if not, a DVD.

For convenience, I'm working the files on the computer's hard drive. A
document in Microsoft Word 2003, which I intend to save to PDF or HTML,
serves as the index document to the jpg "pages" with a description in Word
of each page. All files are on the same path and the hyperlinks to the
jpg's are relative -- I've only specified the filename in the link.

Before going much further I attempted to write this Word file to PDF format
(using cutePDFwriter, that to a CD-RW to test that the hyperlinking works on
a different drive. The PDF file looks good -- the links are underlined and
blue -- but they don't work. Hovering with the mouse pointer over them
reveals nothing as well.

What am I missing?

Len

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

That would be an option somewhere in your PDF creation software, not in
Word. For example, various versions of Adobe Acrobat allow you to
choose to preserve hyperlinks and/or enable tagged PDFs in the
conversion options. I don't use CutePDF, so I don't know if it is even
capable of making functional hyperlinks... it may depend on whether you
have the free or paid version. You should rtfm or contact CutePDF support.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Frankly this is an odd way to distribute photographs, unless it is more
about accompanying text. I would make a slide show and for that there's
probably nothing simpler to use than Google Picasa 2.

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[Fatfreek]

Picasa 2 would be simple but captions are extremely important on photos that
are nearly a century old where photos are only half the story. I doubt
Picasa allows captions as lengthy as the following Word journal entry
indexed to the photo of my grandfather:

"Sheridan Grant Martin, Thursday, April 28, 1864 to Friday, March 28, 1919.
Born in the French Creek Area, Upshur Co., W.V. The Civil War has been
raging this five months following Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. When baby
Sheridan was a year old, Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

His mother, prior to marriage, was Kizziah Vincent. His father, Josiah
Martin .

He died in Charleston, W. V. and was buried in Beech Town Cemetery,
Frenchton, W. V.

Wesley was eleven when his father died. He said Grandpa Sheridan was killed
from a scaffold accident, "...crushed while working" according to the family
publication "Some Martin Cousins".

I suspect both photos were taken at the same time and guess it was near the
turn of the century. A logical time for such a formal portrait would have
been a bit earlier, June of 1893, when this 29 year old West Virginian
southerner and a 17 year young Yankee girl were married on her turf at
Sackets Harbor, N. Y.

Note Sheridan's sagging right eyelid. Normand and I have the same flaw.

1907 -- Wesley Sheridan Miller is born Thursday, November 21, Syracuse, New
York. The following year Ford would introduce the Model T."

Len Miller

 

[Graham Mayor]

Nothing to stop you creating images of the captions (SnagIt will do this
easily) and interspersing them with the photos.

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[Fatfreek]

That would be an option somewhere in your PDF creation software, not in
Word. For example, various versions of Adobe Acrobat allow you to
choose to preserve hyperlinks and/or enable tagged PDFs in the
conversion options. I don't use CutePDF, so I don't know if it is even
capable of making functional hyperlinks... it may depend on whether you
have the free or paid version. You should rtfm or contact CutePDF support.

I have other docs where hyperlinks are functional but they are all web
addresses.

I'll check the internal settings (if any) in CutePDF. Your tip to contact
CutePDF support sounds like a good one.

Len