Long hyperlinks not working in pdf export.

[M Black]

This is an issue which I first came across in InDesign CS4, but it seems to have been fixed in more recent versions of InDesign. So I tried it in Affinity 2 beta and I found the same problem as with InDesign CS4.

If a hyperlink runs over two lines, the pdf export shows it as a hyperlink, but the link doesn't work. In this case, only the first part of the link works, so it doesn't go to the right page. 

 

url test.pdf url test.afpub

[MikeTO]

Hi, the test document doesn't actually include a hyperlink. The blue underlined link text isn't linked in Publisher.

There is a bug but it's not what you think. There's no issue with Publisher exporting hyperlinks correctly, it's with the creation of the link.

Try this. Paste a long URL into Publisher as regular text. Select it and choose Insert Hyperlink. Before clicking OK look at the link in the dialog - it will have been truncated at 128 characters. This is the bug, it's only copying the first 128 characters of the selected text to profile the text field. If you paste the full URL into the dialog before clicking OK it will work correctly.

I feel like we've reported this 128-character limit bug before.

 

[M Black]

I wondered if it was because I opened the InDesign idml file in affinity to test it, and maybe it had carried the problem with it from InDesign.

Anyway, I tried placing the original docx file into Affinity 2 Beta, and then exporting it to pdf and it worked. The whole url seems to have worked. No character limit.

 

 

stell.afpub stell.pdf

[MikeTO]

I found the thread where we had discussed the 128-character limit bug before.

 

[M Black]

It seems to work now. I saved my long url as normal text in Word and pasted it into Publisher (|Test1). Then I made it a hyperlink (test2) and exported to pdf. It seems to work.

 

 

test1.afpub test2.afpub test2.pdf

[MikeTO]

19 minutes ago, M Black said:

It seems to work now. I saved my long url as normal text in Word and pasted it into Publisher (|Test1). Then I made it a hyperlink (test2) and exported to pdf. It seems to work

The bug is only in pre-filling the URL field in Hyperlink Properties from the selected text in the document. There was never an issue with setting a hyperlink manually or exporting to PDF.

[M Black]

Sorry. I have no idea what you're talking about. Whatever it is, it's not something I do, so not a problem for me. I am mainly interested in importing Word files which contain hyperlinks. That does seem to work.

[Affinity Info Bot]

An issue raised in this thread ("Add Hyperlink copies only the first 128 selected characters") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AFB-7450). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Add Hyperlink copies only the first 128 selected characters" (REF: AFB-7450) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.1.0.1728".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.