Louis Fourie Posted August 1, 2024 Posted August 1, 2024 Hyperlinks are removed/broken when imported into any Affinity Publisher. Below are 3 images - the first is the pdf with an active hyperlink. (viewed in Adobe Acrobat) Once imported, you can see the hyperlink in Affinity Publisher. The last image is of the exported PDF, there is no interaction available, but the formatting still shows as it being a hyperlink. The original document was created with InDesign, however, if I correct the problem in Affinity and export it it does work. But here is the big problem if I import the corrected PDF into Affinity, then the Hyperlink breaks again. So, it seems the issue lies in Affinity with hyperlink recognition. Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 1, 2024 Posted August 1, 2024 Hyperlinks in PDF files are not retained if you Open the PDF in Publisher. They might be retained if you Place the PDF in Passthrough mode, and then Export the file (I haven't checked that). I think this is a known limitation, rather than a bug. I know it's been discussed before but I'm not able to find the discussion(s) at this time. Possibly another user can find it, or Serif will let us know the current status when they handle this topic. Louis Fourie 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Hangman Posted August 1, 2024 Posted August 1, 2024 Hi @Louis Fourie and welcome to the forums, I'm assuming in your second screenshot, you've manually added the hyperlink to 'WSET' and 'SASA'? 3 hours ago, Louis Fourie said: The original document was created with InDesign, however, if I correct the problem in Affinity and export it it does work. But here is the big problem if I import the corrected PDF into Affinity, then the Hyperlink breaks again. So, it seems the issue lies in Affinity with hyperlink recognition. If you have a working version of your file in Publisher with active hyperlinks what is the logic of re-importing the exported PDF file, why wouldn't you just edit the Publisher file if there is a need to update any of the hyperlinks and then re-export to a new PDF? Louis Fourie 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Louis Fourie Posted August 5, 2024 Author Posted August 5, 2024 Interestingly enough, the second screenshot is Publisher's attempt to pull the Hyperlink, so it does recognise that it is a hyperlink, but it's not able to pull/translate the data. So I'm sure that it is either an incomplete function or their code to identify it wasn't adapted correctly for files outside of their native file format. I even tried exporting the PDF from Publisher and then importing that PDF again, and even in this process it doesn't recognise the hyperlink. So regardless of the source program of the PDF or hyperlink, the affinity platform doesn't recognise the hyperlink correctly (even if it tries to) Quote
Hangman Posted August 5, 2024 Posted August 5, 2024 43 minutes ago, Louis Fourie said: Interestingly enough, the second screenshot is Publisher's attempt to pull the Hyperlink, so it does recognise that it is a hyperlink, but it's not able to pull/translate the data. All it's doing is inheriting the Hyperlink Character Style, it's not inheriting the physical Hyperlink, so while it may look as though it's a Hyperlink it's not... If you don't style the Hyperlink in your source document it will come in unstyled... Louis Fourie 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Louis Fourie Posted August 13, 2024 Author Posted August 13, 2024 Thank you @Hangman for your response. This particular situation was due to an outsourced designer starting a document (containing many hyperlinks) and it was then requested for me to make changes. That's where I came to see this challenge, I requested several file formats to see if anything else would work, but nothing changed. That's when I started looking into possible workarounds and noticing its limitations. I understand it is a particular case and most will not be falling into it, but for the sake of helping to work within the confounds of multiple system ecosystems, this feature would be quite helpful. In addition to the above-mentioned, it would be great to have the hyperlinking identified when a person pastes the text into a text frame. Just putting that out there. 😅 Quote
Hangman Posted August 13, 2024 Posted August 13, 2024 Hi @Louis Fourie, Technically it's possible to convert the InDesign exported PDF file to a Word File which would then maintain the hyperlinks but depending on the layout of the document the resulting layout could be a bit hit and miss... This would suit blanket text quite well but wouldn't do such a great job with more complex page layouts... Louis Fourie 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
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