Linking within a document?

[JSC]

1. Can a link from a vector or photo be created which links to another object on another page?

   And are there tutorials for this?

2.  When importing/opening a PDF file ( ie., a product  manual), can the linking of the PDF be retained (for instance a manuals Table of contents’ page links).?

 

 

Edited January 2 by JSC
Correct a typo

[MikeTO]

#1 - Yes. Create a text anchor on the target page by placing the cursor in a text object choosing Text > Interactive > Insert Anchor. Or create an object anchor on that page by selecting an object with the Move tool and choosing the same command - it makes no sense that the command is in the Text menu for objects, but it doesn't matter. Then link to the anchor with Text > Interactive > Insert Hyperlink.

#2 - No. If you place it, you're placing only a single page and even if you place other instances for other pages they won't be connected and so can't link. If you open it, the links will be lost when it's converted to editable text.

[thomaso]

FWIW, if you want to link to a certain page (not a certain object) you don't need to create an anchor and can apply the hyperlink to any object.

V1 hyperlink to page.pdf

[walt.farrell]

11 hours ago, thomaso said:

FWIW, if you want to link to a certain page (not a certain object) you don't need to create an anchor and can apply the hyperlink to any object.

Without seeing the Affinity file, I'm not completely sure what you did. However, if you setup a hyperlink to, e.g.,  page 5 directly, rather than to any object or text on page 5, there's a potential issue with that approach. That link will always be to page 5, whatever happens to be there currently, not the page 5 that existed when you created the hyperlink. If you've subsequently added or deleted text or images and things have moved, it may no longer point where you want it to point. Linking to text or an object is more commonly what is needed, I think.

[JSC]

Thank you all for your suggestions and links to the offline PDF manual.

[thomaso]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Without seeing the Affinity file, I'm not completely sure what you did. However, if you setup a hyperlink to, e.g.,  page 5 directly, rather than to any object or text on page 5, there's a potential issue with that approach. That link will always be to page 5, whatever happens to be there currently, not the page 5 that existed when you created the hyperlink. If you've subsequently added or deleted text or images and things have moved, it may no longer point where you want it to point. Linking to text or an object is more commonly what is needed, I think.

Yes, in the .afpub the two hyperlinks were applied to the two coloured rectangle objects. The exported pages were 834 to 836 with linked pages 834 + 836. In the resulting PDF of three pages the two links toggle successfully between page 1 and 3 while page 2 is empty and not used as link or target. So far both links work as I expected them to work.

The only unexpected things appear if the PDF gets opened in APub: a.) the Hyperlinks panel is empty and b.) the page arrangement appears to be confused by the initial facing page document and the exported spreads, probably caused by the first exported page being a left page in the .afpub layout and resulting in a copy of the first object (green, page 1 -> a copy left of page 2).

Nevertheless, thank you to point out the difference between the methods of linking a page and linking an object.

Your hint leads me to another question: Is there a way to maintain the .afpub's page numbers in the exported PDF, means that the page number field in the PDF would not show 1, 2, 3 but the initial 834, 835, 836 ?

[walt.farrell]

19 hours ago, thomaso said:

Your hint leads me to another question: Is there a way to maintain the .afpub's page numbers in the exported PDF, means that the page number field in the PDF would not show 1, 2, 3 but the initial 834, 835, 836 ?

Not that I know of, at least directly within the Affinity applications.