Importing text with hyperlinks

[psheld]

I have seen various historic threads here that indicate I'm not the only one to be frustrated by my challenge today, but posting to see if there is some new response.

I have to get extensive copy from other sources into Publisher. The sources have copious hyperlinks. No matter how I try, Publisher refuses to recognize the hyperlinks. This is, tbh, kinda shocking!

I've tried copy and paste, importing PDFs, importing .docx, but while the hyperlinked style can be maintained (teasing me that perhaps they are indeed links), alas, no sign of the hyperlink whatsoever.

A team led by Douglas Engelbart first implemented the hyperlink concept as we know it today in 1968, and of course the entire WWW (1993) is predicated on them. Just saying!

[MikeTO]

The hyperlinks in my docx files are retained when importing so I'm surprised it's not working for you. Do you have a docx test file we could try? Perhaps the issue with your links is specific to the URL format.

However, copying and pasting from MS Word did not work.

I'm not terribly surprised hyperlinks in PDF files aren't retained.

[psheld]

Thanks @MikeTO.

Interesting! I just realised I made a mistake in my original post here. I did indeed try to import a .docx but when I select File _ Import Content, the Finder doesn't allow me to pick .docx files. How did you do it?

[walt.farrell]

41 minutes ago, psheld said:

but when I select File _ Import Content

"Import Content" is for brushes, assets, etc. Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Addons/importingAddons.html (search term in the Help: "import content")

Use File > Place to import a .docx file. Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Text/importText.html (search term in the Help: docx)

As for importing a PDF and having hyperlinks survive: that is not a function implemented in Affinity's PDF importer at this time. It has certainly been requested previously.

[psheld]

Thanks @walt.farrell.

I really appreciate your response even if it renders Affinity Publisher entirely useless to me for the task ahead.

It is simply astonishing that such a fundamental capability, and one that hardly requires major engineering time to sort out, is missing. Incredibly disappointing.

Also, should anyone in the UI/UX team read this, may I suggest that no-one thinks of brushes, assets, etc. as "content". Or at least no-one I know!

Best regards.

 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.