RE: Acrobat: Adding E-Mail Hyperlinks

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

Thanks, Shlomo -- this worked very well!

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: Shlomo Perets [mailto:shlomo2 -at- microtype -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:37 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Acrobat: Adding E-Mail Hyperlinks

Jim,

You wrote:

>Is there an easy way to add an e-mail hyperlink to an already created 
>PDF document? We're using Acrobat 6, and, although I can readily add 
>some links, creating the e-mail variety isn't obvious. Unfortunately, 
>Acrobat is not picking up the hyperlink in the source document, at 
>least not in a way that can be read by anything below Reader 7, which 
>not all of our readership will have.

To create web links (including e-mail links) automatically for an
existing PDF, try: Advanced > Links > Create From URLs In Document

Acrobat's interpretation of text-based web addresses is problematic when
the URL is split between lines, or when the "underlying" text is not
recognized properly. In the case of e-mail addresses, the presence of
characters such as dot, underscore or dash disrupts the resulting link
(so that a link to b -at- company -dot- com is created, instead of
a_b -at- company -dot- com).

To create or fix web links manually, use the standard Link tool (the
action is "open a web page"; specify the full address, starting with
"mailto:";).


Shlomo Perets

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FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting * FrameMaker-to-Acrobat 
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