Multiple (Duplicate) Hyperlink Issue

[Bob_Golden@adobeforums.com]

Did you ever solve the problem?

I have several sources that I want to link to the same (URL) destination. It seems that each one has to have its own source/destination combination even though the destination is the same for all. (That's your problem too, right?)

The Help database (I'm using IDCS) seems to indicate that you can select text (source), then select a hyperlink in the palette, then select Reset Hyperlink. But that just seems to move the link from one text selection to another -- not actually assign the link to an additional source.

It seems awfully hard to believe that it can't be done. Can anyone help?

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

A hyperlink has two components: source and destination. You can share destinations, but you can't share sources.

The easy(!?) solution to your challenge is to script the making of the hyperlinks, provided there is some straightforward way for the script to know which destination goes with each source. If not, then you have to use the manual process.

Dave

[Gary_Pavan@adobeforums.com]

The problem was never resolved, because we were dealing with 5000+ hyperlinks post catalog it was not cost or time effective to pursue adding them after the fact, so we settled using Acrobat Pro after it was converted to PDF for the links. In the future we will attempt to include with the first creation of the catalog. It still does not solve the multiple hyperlink issue, hopefully adobe can incorporate something in the next update.

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

I am still floundering to understand the "multiple hyperlink issue" -- I use multiple hyperlinks all the time and have yet to have a problem.

Dave

[Gary_Pavan@adobeforums.com]

It is a duplicate hyperlink issue re-using the same hyperlink in multiple locations. For example if I have my website url on the bottom of every page I would need to recreate an occurance for every page. It does not allow me to reuse the same hyperlink multiple time.

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

But they're not the same. They have different sources.

You can copy and paste a hyperlink from one place to another and that will cause a duplicate to be formed that has the same destination, which is really all you want.

Dave

[Diane_King@adobeforums.com]

I'm just curious because this is not a feature I use at all, but if you're using the same hyperlink at the bottom of every page--would it work off a master? Or could you create it on the master and then use a script to pull it to every page?

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Yes, Diane, that does work. I just tried it. But I assumed that Gary was just quoting that scenario as an example. However, that does belie my words in that in this case the same hyperlink is used over and over.

Dave