Hyperlinks missing for endnotes of PDF’s exported from Books Panel

[Emolas]

I am setting up individual chapters to be compiled into a book using Publisher’s Books panel. Each chapter consists of two stories. The first story of each chapter contains the main text and concludes with the chapter’s endnotes; the second story (following directly after the endnotes) contains the references for that chapter. Endnotes are positioned “End of Story” and endnote numbering restarts each story. Two-way hyperlinks between reference numbers (in the text) and endnote bodies work as expected in Publisher and when an individual chapter (i.e., individual file) is exported to PDF. However, when a PDF is exported from the Books panel — whether all chapters or a single chapter — note references and note bodies are missing hyperlinks entirely.

I tried a couple of variations with chapter structure:

1) In Notes panel, changed “Restart every Story” to  “Restart every Section”

2) Added a “New Section” start for the fist page of the References story

Results were the same: no links in either direction between note references and note bodies when exported as PDF from Books panel.

Am I doing something wrong or is the lack of hyperlinks for endnotes in PDFs exported from the Books panel a known “feature”? I am running Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 on macOS Sonoma.

[MikeTO]

Hi @Emolas and welcome to the forums.

I've duplicated the problem you reported. It should work but it clearly doesn't, although it does when exporting a single document instead of a Book.

I don't think this bug has been previously reported.

[Emolas]

Thank you, MikeTO, for checking out and confirming the problem.

(Also, apologies to all for the errant apostrophe after PDF in the title of this topic!)

Emolas

[Hangman]

9 hours ago, MikeTO said:

I don't think this bug has been previously reported.

This sounds like a variation on AF-709 from October last year, though I guess it's technically a new bug...

[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, Hangman said:

This sounds like a variation on AF-709 from October last year, though I guess it's technically a new bug...

You're right, it's 709. Thanks.