Finding broken links in a PDF

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Thu Jul 12 10:07:01 PDT 2012


A free option might be to set up DITA to generate Web help and use one
of the many free HTML link checkers.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has Adobe added a tool for finding broken links in a PDF yet? If so,
> where is it? One of my coworkers is looking at a document that is
> umpty-pages long with even umptier numbers of links. It just isn't
> possible to find and click all of them to see if they all work, and
> work as intended. As I recall, the lack of a tool like this has been a
> long-standing issue with Acrobat, and I was kinda hoping they'd fixed
> it by now.
>
> (For reference, the files are structured FrameMaker being saved as PDF
> from a book file created using Leximation's DITA-FMx plugin, and it's
> Adobe Acrobat X.)



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