How to make a text link to a url with AD?

[Bilel]

Hello, 

 

I really need this feature for a project. 

How to make a text link to a url with AD? 

Is it possible ? If not, do you know an other way to put it ?

 

Thank you.

 

Regards.

Bilel

 

                                                                   

[MEB]

Hello Bilel,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Currently there's no way to set a text link in Affinity Designer.

You didn't say how the project will be used/exported. If you intend to export it to PDF for example, you can use a third party app to add links to the text.

[PixelPest]

While the SVG standard supports linking you can try to edit the file in a text-editor and add it manually.

Should look like something as:

 

id="a8232"

       target=""

       xlink:href="https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/20679-can-i-add-links-to-slices-in-ad/">

      <image

         onclick="https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/20679-can-i-add-links-to-slices-in-ad/"

         width="66.585808"

         height="66.585808"

         preserveAspectRatio="none"

         xlink:href="data:image/

I attached a example file here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/20679-can-i-add-links-to-slices-in-ad/

(If you don´t mind you can use Inkscape for that purpose)

 

Cheers

P.

[Bilel]

Thank you for your replies :-)

Hope you'll soon add it on AD!

[Phileas]

I would be happy to add hyperlinks (URL) in Affinity Designer, too!

[lorenzodetomasi]

Please add hyperlinks tool.

Best regards.

[keepcarlson]

Yes please add hyperlinks - I have to go back to Page Plus now

[Xtendo]

Bonjour à tous,

Oui, vraiment, ce serait une super option que de pouvoir insérer directement un hyperlien dans un SVG à partir d'Affinity Designer !

Bien cordialement !

Hello everyone,

Yes, really, it would be a great option to be able to directly insert a hyperlink into an SVG from Affinity Designer!

Best regards !

[toffy]

Hi Guys, I would love this feature too into AF. It's such a handy thing to have.

Ok, for now, I've figured out a simple workaround, though this relies heavily on the user opening the PDF using MAC Preview or Adobe PDF. So this is more of a temporary solution.

The solution:

1. Both these tools can now read links if you have the entire extension in their full form so don't just write www.yoursite.com.au instead write https://www.yoursite.com.au.
2. Now that might look messy including the "https://" in a display. So what I've also found that also works is overlaying a text bit with 0 opacity and that too seems to work well.

Again both these rely on the PDF viewer/reader to make the linking work. I hope this helps someone. I do hope they implement a more robust linking system as soon as possible though. thanks.

[Ghabby]

Hey everyone, it would be a great thing to have de hyperlink tool in AD. Any news?

[MEB]

Hi @Ghabby,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Currently this is only available in Affinity Publisher. I don't know if it will be available Affinity Designer. Feel free to create a new thread/feature request in the respective section of the forums (if there's isn't one already) and add your voice/comments there.