Using Hyperlinks in Quark

[wienerdog]

I've never used the Hyperlinks palette in Quark and was wondering if it allows you to create hyperlinks that will be similar to what they look like in HTML. If I print my Quark document as a PDF and create hyperlinks in the Quark document, will they be click-able in the PDF?

[MD]

as long as you have the http:// before the site it will be clickable in a pdf anyways. You don't need to use the hyperlinks crapola.

[wienerdog]

Yeah, but what if I have an article snippet that's the first paragraph of an article that I want to link to in the PDF. I'd like it to say "Read the Full Article" and have that text link to the article online.

[MD]

Yws it will work that way then - the hypertext palette is fairly straightforward, But I am sure you already know that because it took me so long to respond :)

[wienerdog]

So I've run into a huge snag.

I have Quark 6.5 and a Postscript printer and Acrobat 6. To create a PDF, I usually choose File > Print > and choose Adobe PDF for my printer. The hyperlinks are not retained in the PDF using that method of PDF creation. I'm told to retain hyperlinks, I need to choose File > Export > Layout as PDF

However, I get an error saying "To save a layout as a PDF file, a PostScript printer must be set up to print a file."

I have a PostScript printer set up and have Acrobat 6 with Distiller. What do I need to do to create a PDF with Hyperlinks?

[MD]

are you on a mac or pc?

[wienerdog]

I'm on a PC.

[MD]

On the mac side in order to save as a pdf I have to set my postscript printer as the default printer. I do not know how or what you have to do on the pc side.

[wienerdog]

I tried setting up the PostScript printer I have as default, and that hasn't corrected the problem. Is there a reason why the Hyperlinks aren't included when I print to PDF, because I can create PDFs from the Print dialog window that comes up. I just can't export to PDF.