hyperlink - The physical location in the page

[Moshe_Assulin@adobeforums.com]

When I export the A PDF file, how do I know the physical location of the hyperlink in the output page (coordinates)

I need to export from Indesign
- Hyperlink physical location (# page & XY coordinates)

TIA

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Do you mean that you want to write a program that reads the
co-ordinates of each hyperlink on each page of a PDF?

Aandi Inston

[Moshe_Assulin@adobeforums.com]

Yes. I want to find out the exact x and y of each hyperLink.

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Ok, do you have Acrobat Professional and the Acrobat SDK?

Aandi Inston

[Moshe_Assulin@adobeforums.com]

Andi

No I don't have. Can you tell me plz where can I get it and what I should do?
Thanx for help

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Acrobat Professional can be purchased.

The Acrobat SDK is free to download, and includes information on
automating Acrobat . But it may be a big development problem on a
Macintosh. I think you will have to write an Acrobat plug-in to get
all the link locations. Plug-ins are written in C/C++. An experienced
C/C++ programmer should be able to get to this stage in a month or so.

Aandi Inston

[Moshe_Assulin@adobeforums.com]

Aandi,

You think I can get the coordinates of A hyperLink even though it is not a vector?

Do You have any idea who can develop this plug in?

Thanx

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

Oh, the jokesters must come out on April 1...

I think there's an easier way to get what you want. If I understand what you're asking for, you just need Acrobat Professional. Under the Tools palette you you have the option to open the Measurements toolbar. Set your scale ratio to what you need in pixels per inch, and use any of the measuring tools available to find the measurements you want in pixels from any location. If you measure from the upper left it ought to give you the x and y measurement in pixels. I think that's all you need, right?

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Maybe I misunderstand the question. Certainly, if you just want to
find out the information for a few hyperlinks, manually, you can do
this. I assumed you were a programmer putting together an automated
process - am I wrong?

Aandi Inston

[Moshe_Assulin@adobeforums.com]

Hi

Unfortunately I am not a programmer, and I want this process to be done automatically.

The work flow goes like that:

1. A Graphic Designer - Do layout and designing the page.

2. Content editor - Add some hyper links to the page then export it to PDF.

Here I need the help, How Do I pull out the x and y location of the hyper links and use the acrobat menu to export it to excel.

I Hope I clarified things.

\TIA

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Ok, then I think you need to find or become a programmer. This is
certainly a programming task, so far as I can see.

Aandi Inston

[Moshe_Assulin@adobeforums.com]

Hi

OK, Lets say I found one. is it possible to write a code that will accomplish the goal? Do you have an idea if it is easy or difficult to do it. How much (average) it gonna cost?

TIA

[jonf@adobeforums.com]

I guess I'm misunderstanding the question, then.

I don't quite understand what you're trying to accomplish with this task. How does Excel factor into this? What value is it to have a report of x and y coordinates for an Acrobat page? This sounds like something you'd need for html coding, not a print document. If so, the pages should be exported as html pages, not Acrobat pdf files, from your original. I only ask because I have a feeling you might be creating way more work or expense for yourself than you need to be. The more information you can provide, the better advice you'll probably get.

If you need a report of x and y coordinates, I'm thinking Acrobat is the wrong application. It's not really a web design app. I don't have Dreamweaver here at my office, but I seem to remember that all that information is available if you open your pages in Dreamweaver, and there may be a way of extracting a report with just what you need. You might try asking your question on the Dreamweaver forum, if that's the route that makes more sense for what you're trying to do.

[Moshe_Assulin@adobeforums.com]

Hi

Here is the details:

I am working at Daily newspaper, lately we started to include all the on line hyper links in our print version. The problem is that the blue color (hyper link style) start to become dominant color in large area of the sheet. The final print version is very dark, The way to solve it is to open the color tap, what's make the newspaper very dark. From the print shop we've been told that if we will let them know the exact area of the hyper links they will be able to control the dark and the bright area more easy.

We are a 96 pages every day, it is not possible to find out the coordinates manually, so we thought to try to establish an automatic process for that.

Anyway we are in deep problem and we must solve it, other way our paper become unreadable.

Thanx for help

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

If I was approaching this problem, I would be taking a different path.
I thought I would share my ideas in case they are of any benefit.

Consider
* You are presumably adding hyperlinks for an online use of some kind.
The ideal, and normal, solution is two production paths, two PDFs,
since in any case a printable PDF is usually unsuitable for online
use. Much software allows styles to be assigned for characters, and
changed globally.

* If you must go down the path of having a plug-in written, it seems
to be the plug-in could usefully fix the colours as required, rather
than go through this convoluted process making more work for everyone.

Aandi Inston