Hi all-
I created a document in InDesign CS 5.5 that contains numerous hyperlinks. Essentially, the hyperlinks are a text question or topic that links to a URL where the user can hear that question and answer. After exporting to PDF and opening the file in Acrobat, I can click on the hyperlinks and they work as expected. Here is where the problem lies- my guys are trying to copy specific questions for their clients into emails and other documents, but when they paste, the URL information is stripped. Essentially, no matter how they paste or into what application it is pasted into, the hyperlink just turns into formatted text (so blue text, no longer a clickable hyperlink).
Is there a way to keep these hyperlinks in a state that they can be copied out of the PDF and into an email, for example?
I have found a workaround by saving the PDF as a Word doc in Acrobat. I can then copy/paste the hyperlinks around applications and they still work. The issue with this is the Word doc loses some formatting, and a lot of the other benefits of a PDF. I would also prefer not to have to provide two versions (PDF and .doc) to the team, and do not want to have them have to remember to save to word to get editable text.
Please let me know if there is anything that might cause this or resolve this!
Thank you in advance!
-Dash