I have created a pdf with links to a couple of websites, the links work fine if you open the pdf on a pc but if you open it on an iPhone or iPad the links don't work. I made sure the links have http://
Does anyone know a solution?
Louilly 0 Light Poster
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Jump to Post— twiss 155How did you create the pdf, and how did you create the links? It might be that the only reason that you can click them on a pc, is that your pc app figured that it's a URI. It might help to explicitly tell the app you create them with …
Jump to Post— almostbob 866it appers to be limitations in the iphone pdf reader, there are several replacements sample
apple, superficial whizz-bangs hide the failures
Jump to Post— almostbob 866you cant guarantee the user will install a plugin other than the apple one
apple users, may be neo-luddites about other software
'the client(1*)' may have to go to a user friendly alternative, a html page, or other, to ensure the links are seen as links
for whatever reason those …
Jump to Post— xiÇŽo 0There is a pdf reader for the ipad
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdf-reader-pro-edition-for/id364502063?mt=8Also If you want it to be readable on the ipad/ ipod touch and iphone you can open the pdf with the 'pages' app
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Jump to Post— almostbob 866on the page with the pdf, perhaps a link to download the functioning app?
like those that link to acrobat reader where they have a pdf for pcs
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matricol -8 Junior Poster in Training
make a html from that pdf
Louilly 0 Light Poster
I can't, it needs to be a pdf, my client wants a pdf that he can email to people
matricol -8 Junior Poster in Training
i have an ipod touch and i dont see any links in any pdfs :( sorry m8
Louilly 0 Light Poster
Hmm just realised they don't work on Android either, this is worse than I thought!
matricol -8 Junior Poster in Training
try word doc
Louilly 0 Light Poster
It can't be a Word doc or a html doc or any other kind of doc, it needs to be a pdf
twiss 155 Veteran Poster
How did you create the pdf, and how did you create the links? It might be that the only reason that you can click them on a pc, is that your pc app figured that it's a URI. It might help to explicitly tell the app you create them with it's one.
If you did that already, try a different way to create the pdf (another app, or export/convert from another format, et cetera).
Louilly 0 Light Poster
I created it in Illustrator but have added the links in Acrobat 9 Pro, I'll try some different export options, strange though that the links work perfectly except on a phone. Here's a link to the pdf if it helps
Thanks
almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS
it appers to be limitations in the iphone pdf reader, there are several replacements sample
apple, superficial whizz-bangs hide the failures
Louilly 0 Light Poster
I was afraid of that almostbob, but thanks for the example of a replacement, I guess that will be the way to go for now. Thank you
almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS
you cant guarantee the user will install a plugin other than the apple one
apple users, may be neo-luddites about other software
'the client(1*)' may have to go to a user friendly alternative, a html page, or other, to ensure the links are seen as links
for whatever reason those with authority decide, they have decided wrongly in this case
dependant on any third party addin, will probably fail
- properly written html travels well in email, works in page, in all devices
1* combine equal amounts of impossible, instantaneous, and angry, mix until 20 minutes before deadline, pour into mould, makes 1 client :)
matricol -8 Junior Poster in Training
@ almostbob : but linking isn't one of those limitation
Louilly 0 Light Poster
almostbob, it has to be a pdf unfortunately and for once it isn't the client being awkward! It's some external thing where they have asked all the drivers to submit pdf's. I think for now he and I will accept it as a limitation and hope most people open it on a comp and not a phone! Thanks for your help
matricol -8 Junior Poster in Training
In that case good luck m8 ! :)
Louilly 0 Light Poster
I'm not sure how this works, should I mark this as solved now? I don't think there is a resolution to this problem.
xiÇŽo 0 Newbie Poster
There is a pdf reader for the ipad
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdf-reader-pro-edition-for/id364502063?mt=8
Also If you want it to be readable on the ipad/ ipod touch and iphone you can open the pdf with the 'pages' app
my ipad isn’t with me so I can't test this but I'm pretty confident that after I got this app I could open pdf links, sorry for the uncertainty
Louilly 0 Light Poster
There is a pdf reader for the ipad
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdf-reader-pro-edition-for/id364502063?mt=8Also If you want it to be readable on the ipad/ ipod touch and iphone you can open the pdf with the 'pages' app
my ipad isn’t with me so I can't test this but I'm pretty confident that after I got this app I could open pdf links, sorry for the uncertainty
Thanks, I think that is the only solution but unfortunately I can't guarantee that people will have the pdf reader or download an app.
almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS
on the page with the pdf, perhaps a link to download the functioning app?
like those that link to acrobat reader where they have a pdf for pcs
Louilly 0 Light Poster
on the page with the pdf, perhaps a link to download the functioning app?
like those that link to acrobat reader where they have a pdf for pcs
That would be lovely if I had control over the page but I don't unfortunately. I can do that for my client's own website but the pdf's have been requested by another site. It's a site about racing, my client is just one of the drivers featured on there, I can't dictate anything.
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