Find URLs split over multiple lines in Publisher

[RobC]

Hi - I'm working on a long document in Publisher with some URLs that go over 2-3 lines. Is there a way to find these URLs with Regex so I can manually insert a hyperlink to ensure they are detected in Acrobat?

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

As far as I know there's no way to Find the text that spans multiple lines. There's nothing in the text string itself that shows where it flows onto the next line, and thus nothing for the reflex to find.

I think you'll need to just look for http:// or https:// and examine each one.

Ideally, I think you should put in a Publisher Hyperlink for each URL, whether it breaks across lines or not, rather than relying on Acrobat. After all, some users may not be using Acrobat, but a different PDF reader that is not configured to automatically detect URLs.

[RobC]

Thanks Walt. I’m only just getting to grips with Regex but I was thinking along the lines of finding any new line that wasn’t preceded by a space or return. In theory this should find any broken strings of characters

Rob

PS I take your point about hyperlinking all URLs but it’s not an issue with my workflow as the PDF is uploaded to ISSUU to be read as an online flip book. Single line URLs are detected always 

[walt.farrell]

33 minutes ago, RobC said:

finding any new line that wasn’t preceded by a space or return

There would need to be a physical new-line character of some kind in the text for that to work. 

[RobC]

That makes sense. Thanks for your help

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.