Hyperlinking System

[Kyla M]

Hello,

I have a product improvement request.

I create digital planners using affinity publisher, but there are definitely some downfalls with your hyperlinking compared to Adobe InDesign (I suck it up so I don’t have to pay for the Adobe subscription - plus I like your UI better).

In Adobe InDesign, when you hyperlink a page, and then say you add another page in the middle of the document, the hyperlink follows the slide I linked it to (rather than what “page number” it falls on). In affinity publisher, it follows the “page number”, so if I add a page in the middle of the document, all the hyperlinks get messed up. You could see how this could be frustrating and time consuming when you have thousands of hyperlinks.

Also, in adobe InDesign, a red dotted circle shows you that there is a hyperlink on that word that you hyperlinked. In affinity publisher there is no indication of anything being hyperlinked.

Same goes for Keynote and PowerPoint - it’s like Adobe InDesign where it follows the slide itself. Yours is the only program I’ve used that doesn’t do this.

Thanks,

Kyla

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Kyla M.

There are several kinds of hyperlinks, and you're right that this problem exists if you hyperlink to a page: it is the absolute page. But you can hyperlink to an object on a page, and those will continue to work.

There's still a problem, as there is no easy way to say "See page 8" and have the "8" adjust. There is a way, just not really easy, involving linked text frames and Pinning.

You're not the first to have asked for this for Publisher, but perhaps the first to have asked for V2  

[PeterYC]

I completely agree with Kyla. Affinity Publisher needs to take this issue seriously and improve the hyperlink/anchor work flow for those who want to do serious business selling digital planners. It's a pain in the a$$ to add a hyperlink/anchor on every single page, A completed digital planner includes 1-2 page 2 years view, 12 pages month view, 52 pages week view, 365 pages day view.  That's total of 431 pages need to add hyperlinks/anchors.  

Thanks.

[Ash]

Hi - Yes, the hyperlinks absolutely should move when you insert pages. This was really a bug. Anyway, we have fixed in the latest build of the 2.1 beta. If you want to try it out in the beta you can join our beta program here