problems with long URLs in PDFs

[Jakob Fix]

Shlomo,

that's a very nice explanation of our problem, thank you! Also, in
this context, your recommendations make perfect sense.

Does MicroType or another software developper possibly propose a
tool/plugin that can automate the hypertext link creation part based
on an element in our structured FrameMaker documents?

cheers,
Jakob.



On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 22:05, Shlomo Perets <shlomo2 at microtype.com> wrote:
> Jakob,
>
>> > co-workers of mine have trouble with some long URLs that break over
>> > lines and some may also contain "special" characters such as question
>> > marks or parentheses. Please note that we're using Acrobat to create
>> > the PDF and that the Generate Tagged PDF option is selected (as
>> > documented here: http://www.frameusers.com/2007/09/ second article). ...
>
> When a PDF does not have "real" links, you are relying on Acrobat/Reader
> "Create Links from URLs" preference (Edit > Preferences, General; in
> versions 7 it is called "Automatically detect URLs from text").
>
> With all versions of Acrobat/Reader: when longer web links that are split
> between lines are auto-detected, only the portion present in the first line
> is used, resulting in an incorrect or partial link.
>
> The presence of special characters may also "disturb" the auto-detection,
> and truncate the resulting link. There are some variations as to special
> characters causing the problems, depending on the Acrobat/Reader version
> being used.
>
> To have fully-functional links in all versions of Reader, I recommend adding
> hypertext links in FrameMaker (as Lief suggested), so that a "real" links
> are present in the PDF (and not relying on auto-detected ones).
>
>
> Shlomo Perets
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