I have several hyperlinks (websites and emailadress) in my document.
pdfcreator does not recognize them. Only the full email adres is recognized example test@pdf.com is working. but the hyperlink is not working. Any idea??
The problem is the way this works. As PDFCreator is a virtual printer, it only receives information by the Windows printing system that is relevant for printers. So it gets the command to draw a text that is blue and underlined. Even if we would guess that this will be a link, we are not able to guess what the URL would have been, because it was not transferred.
So this is the technical reason why this is not possible, though it would be really useful.
Oh! I guess that follows from using the print stream. However, it would be nice to have (a) the ability to provide the url manually or from a file (b) some warning that links have been incorrectly converted.
is it really a hyperink, or is it a link? If the string mailto:test@example.com is visible in clear text, this can get detected. Problematic are hyperlinks like this, fully written out links like www.pdfforge.org will also get detected.
Version 7 of Architect does not reproduce hidden hyperlinks by printing.
If you look to produce pdf with websites, the print option in Opera browser keeps hidden hyperlinks functional. With Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer: no way to keep hidden hyperlinks in the pdf document produced.
Opera can open a pdf document, but it doesn't keep those hyperlinks if you "print" as pdf document to delete pages for instance. Architect does this kind of job properly if you delete pages by using this function, not by "printing".
However, Internet Explore keeps hyperlinks if you save a website as a .mht files.
If you know any other way to keep hyperlinks in documents, please let me know by answering this thread.
Paul
Hi, I have the same problem right now, I have two links in my ppt, exporting with creator the email link works, but not the url, that is written exactly like Robin W. writes. On the contrary, it works exporting with other printers.