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Getting Personal with Hyperlinks

PDFClerk allows you to create and edit hyperlinks.

There are several aspects to dealing with hyperlinks:

Note: In contrast to earlier versions, in PDFClerk Pro links are always attached to the PDF page, not to objects on the page.

Setting the destination of a link to another page in the same document:

To set the destination of a selected destination link you can enter the page number and destination coordinates in the respective input fields in the Dynamic Annotations Inspector, but it is much more convenient to graphically point to the destination. This is done in the following way:

  1. Select the link whose destination you want to set.
  2. In the Dynamic Annotations Inspector make sure its type is set to Local PDF Page.
  3. Click the Get Dest. button. The mouse cursor will now change to a target finder when moving over the contents.
  4. Navigate to the target page by scrolling or selecting it from the page list.
  5. On the target page click the desired target point.

PDFClerk will sound a click and jump back to the page of the link. You will see the link's target page and target coordinates reflected in the inspector.

Setting the destination of a link to web address:

To set the destination of a URL link:

  1. Select the link whose destination you want to set.
  2. In the Dynamic Annotations Inspector make sure its type is set to Web Address.
  3. Enter a valid URL into the URL field.
  4. Click the Test URL field to test the URL. (Optional)

If you test the URL PDFClerk will attempt to open it (in your system's default web browser). If it fails the URL is either invalid or currently not available.

When you switch to an external link type PDFClerk will enter a template URL in the URL field, making it easy to know what format the URL needs to take. You can adjust it as necessary. (The web address, file and email types are internally the same, they are listed separately in the popup menu to facilitate the creation of the most commonly used URL schemes.)

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