Hyperlink problems

[John L]

Thanks for your help Debbie...

I was able to solve the problem!

John.

[Laura Hickle]

I am using Acrobat 7. I have a print magazine that gets re-purposed for the web. I have hyperlinks on the bottom of every page (set up in IDCS1), set up on a web-only layer, that enable the reader to jump from section to section quickly. After exporting the document to PDF, I then add all my article bookmarks in Acrobat, along with whatever URLs didn't make it through the Export (the URL broke into 2 lines, etc.).

Normally this is no problem. However … this month I had most of my article bookmarking finally completed, when I discovered to my horror that I had not reset the hyperlink destinations in ID before doing the export. I didn't want to have to redo all my bookmarks, so I made a new PDF and replaced all the pages into the original PDF. All my Acrobat-created bookmarks now work just fine, but the hyperlinks from ID are mangled. When I checked the "new" PDF before doing the replace, the hyperlinks worked; but the process of replacing them into my original PDF seems to have ruined them. Any suggestions for what I should do differently? Or should I just bite the bullet and redo all my bookmarks again? Argh.

[Jon Bessant]

You might want to try either the InDesign regular or scripting forum -
this could be a blessing?

Jon

[Laura Hickle]

Well, it is a blessing, in a way … it prodded me into learning how to use ID's own bookmarks, rather than just creating them later in Acrobat, since I had to redo them all anyhow.

So I learned something new … woohoo! :-)