Comments on: Hyperlinks: Now you see ‘em. Now you don’t!

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:44:25 +0000

I’m a little late to this discussion, but i’m looking for help on how to permanantly disable those visible rectangles. I routinely import text, with hyperlinks, from Word and do not want the visible rectangles. I can turn them off manually, but since i do this nearly every day I invariably forget. Going to view>turn off hyperlinks works for removing the rectangle in inDesign, but when i export to PDF they reappear.

Am i doing something wrong? Should i want the rectangles, but i’m just not saavy enough to know it?

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:27:54 +0000

Jezz, I agree that it’d be better if ID and Acro had more parity for lots of things, including the link style for hyperlinks.

But I think that the only reason Acro offers the Underline style in the Create Link dialog box is because there’s no other way in the program to do that; whereas in InDesign, there are a bunch of ways to do that that are actually much faster and more flexible than Acro’s method.

The best way, IMO, is to create a character style for your text links in InDesign (if you’re bringing them in from Word, they already have a Character Style applied called Hyperlink). In the Character style, turn on the Underline option, and color it/offset it however you’d like.

Then in InDesign’s Hyperlinks panel, select all the links and turn off the rectangles as Sandee describes in the post.

When you export to PDF with links enabled, the hyperlinks appear underlined, just as in InDesign.

By: Jezz

Jezz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:06:07 +0000

Thx for the Hyperlink info, and the kewl way of getting rid of them in Word (control/command 5/6).

However, I still get a rectangle box around the link, when what I want is an underline.

Seems InDesign CS3 doesn’t have the option of ‘underline’ link style, but only solid or dash lines…

My work around for this is to open the pdf in Acrobat Professional and using the Advanced Editing Tools, you have the choice of solid, dash and underline styles.

Seems daft to me that if Adobe can have this feature in Acrobat, then why not in InDesign?

I’m still a novice with InDesign, just got the prog last Autumn, only just upgraded to CS3.

I am impressed with its pdfing – saves having to Distill postscript files from Quark…

By: joyce

joyce — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:56:34 +0000

Can you create hyperlinks to a folder of graphics rather than to individual files?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:11:51 +0000

Ravi, I’m not sure what your question is. Are you asking why someone would use hyperlinks? You can use hyperlinks in the InDesign file, but not easily. The main reason they’re there is for exported XHTML or PDF. Remember that you have to turn on the Hyperlinks checkbox in the Export PDF Options dialog box in order for hyperlinks to be included in the PDF file.

By: ravi

ravi — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:38:25 +0000

how to access hyperlink?
uses of hyperlink?

By: Steve Werner

Steve Werner — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:33:41 +0000

Thanks, David, much appreciated!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:11:42 +0000

Anne-Marie, hiding a good tip at the tail end of a big ol’ blog post about a different topic just doesn’t count when compared to Sandee standing in front a crowd of people and showing how it’s done!

Plus, one of the nice things about having a brain like a sieve is that I can learn a tip all over again and be just as excited the second time around.

Steve, I just updated the “archive” page so that you can now easily search by author (see “View by month/author” in the nav bar).

But we’ve also implemented the Advanced Search feature. It’s still a little buggy, but it works better than the normal search.

By: vectorbabe

vectorbabe — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:16:09 +0000

Well, yes, Anne-Marie did say, way back in February that:
“Select all the entries for the imported Word hyperlinks in the Hyperlinks palette, then choose Hyperlink Options from the palette menu and change their Appearance to Invisible Rectangle.”

but her blog post was not really directed to showing and hiding the hyperlinks that someone WANTS to include in a document.

She was really talking about what to do with the hyperlinks that litter text from Word.

So, although the actual tip was in the blog, I’m not going to feel that bad in reposting.

But yes, Anne-Marie was first!

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:00:18 +0000

Steve, re the search engine, yes … click the Advanced Search link below the search field. That’s new.

We tweaked a bit of the site over the past week, trying to reduce the # of entries in the left sidebar, and now Contributors are included in the About link (where we think most people would look).

Clicking your name there will bring up your author archive as before. We could probably make that more obvious though.