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When I wanted to create a flyer this week for an event I’m co-organizing, I ran into a very practical problem. I’d done a very basic design in Microsoft Word including some links that I wanted to make into a PDF. But no matter what I tried, I couldn’t get the links to work in my Mac’s Preview. They worked just fine if I opened the PDF in Acrobat Reader, but not in Preview where they transformed into static text instead of clickable links. A little research revealed this was a well-known problem. So, here’s how to create clickable PDF links for Mac Preview: How to Do It Since ChurchMag no doubt has many Mac fans like me, chances are you will run into this same issue sooner or later, if you haven’t already.
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So I thought I’d share the two easiest solutions I found to create a PDF with clickable links on a Mac: Use Pages Much to my surprise, Pages does the job just fine. Just open your Word document in Pages, click the ‘Print’ button and choose ‘Save as PDF’. It will preserve your clickable links without any problem, provided you entered them correctly in the first place (using the full address is important).
This is the solution I finally used and it worked perfectly. Use Open Office It’s free and it works, what more do you want? Just download and your problems are over.
Well, maybe not all of them, but at least you will be able to get working links in your PDF! Have you ever come across this problem? If so, what solution do you use?
However, the images and text links remain active links. I saved the document and reopened it but they are still active links. One difference, however, is that Edit > Links is grayed out. When you convert from Word to PDF, the links no longer work. They look like links, but they don’t go anywhere when you click on them. This is only on a Mac. My fix is to create the file in Word, since I know it better, then open the file in Pages, and export to a PDF through Pages. The links then work just fine.