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This shouldn't be as difficult as I'm making it. Any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!

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In this thread asked how to make an image "click" to a URL. is right in the sense that Illustrator is primarily a design app, not a web-authoring tool; pointed out that export workflows can attach behavior for particular targets. The practical takeaway: Illustrator prepares the art, but the clickable behavior is usually added in the format that will display the image (HTML, SVG, PDF, etc.).

Common, reliable approaches:

  • For regular web pages, export the artwork to PNG/JPG and wrap it in an HTML anchor:

    <a href="https://example.com"><img src="artwork.png" alt="..."></a>

  • To keep vector fidelity on the web, export or hand-edit an SVG and put the link into the SVG markup (inline SVG preserves internal links):

    <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="200" height="100">
  <a href="https://example.com">
    <rect x="0" y="0" width="200" height="100" fill="#ddd"/>
  </a>
</svg>

    See the SVG anchor element documentation for details: SVG <a> element.

  • For deliverables meant as PDFs, add links with a PDF editor (Acrobat Pro) or use a layout tool that supports interactive PDF export.

Quick troubleshooting: test the exported file in the target viewer (browser or PDF reader); inline SVG or object/embed preserves internal links better than using an <img> tag; ensure clickable shapes have a fill or pointer-events enabled and are not covered by other objects. For complex interactive layouts, use a tool built for interactivity (web editor, InDesign, Acrobat) rather than relying on Illustrator alone.

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there's no way to do that because that's not the purpose of Illustrator. Illustrator is for designing something, not using something.

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window menu>attributes.
Select the photo. Choose rectangle as the image map and type the URL in the box.
Then when you export your Illustrator file to, for example a Flash SWF, when you click on the photo you will go to the URL embedded in the photo.

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