Illustrator PDF Output Error

[jm1786]

Hello,

I did my resume in Illustrator, and when I output it to a PDF, it makes my e-mail address and website URL clickable when you view it in Adobe Acrobat.

Which, this is fine, except for some reason, the website URL is missing 2 letters from the main portion of the URL.

There is an option when you select the text in Acrobat Professional to make a link, which I did and updated it, but it gives me a different style cursor when you hover over it this time. Making me think there are now 2 links sitting on top of each other.

Anyone know how to edit the current link, the one that Adobe created when it was output to the PDF from the Illustrator file?

[GraphixNPrint]

in windows and acrobat professional, right click over the link to open the properties and edit there. If your on a Mac, someone else will be along to help.

[jm1786]

in windows and acrobat professional, right click over the link to open the properties and edit there. If your on a Mac, someone else will be along to help.


yeah, forgot to mention, I'm on a Mac.

I dunno if it makes a difference, but they weren't created as links. I don't know if that is even possible in Illustrator since AI files are for print.

For instance, if I were to create a resume in Microsoft Word, it would automatically turn URL's into links, by default it would underline them and turn them blue. And when you save to a PDF, they would still be blue and underlined and active links (unless you changed it after the fact).

So somewhere along the line, probably when Illy was saving as a pdf, it embedded the wrong info. Or maybe Acrobat reader tries to find possible URL's within PDF's and tries to make them active. Meaning the actual document has no metadeta containing those links, the reader just adds them, and for some reason, keeps adding the wrong link.

But yeah, when I right-click (crtl-click) I get no properties option.

[doubting_thomas]

I'm sure there's a slicker way to do it, but Printing to File, then Distilling
will cure that. It has to do with your Export to PDF settings, so I'd start
by checking there (I'm to busy to check (but not to busy to be on GDF :p)).
Postscript doesn't support live URL's if I recall.

[Mynock]

Convert it to outlines in illustrator before you export, problem solved. That way people can't change your resume, unless you lock it, then you can leave it as type.

[urstwile]

I'm on a Mac, and this doesn't happen to me. What version of Illustrator and Acrobat are you using?

[urstwile]

Ah ha, it's a preference:

http://i24.tinypic.com/2djo4dz.jpg

[jm1786]

I'm on a Mac running Illy CS3 and Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro.

The thing with that prefs pane in Acrobat is that is for people using a specific copy/instance of the program, not specific to my document when I save it.

I don't want to get rid of the ability to click on the links, I just want to fix the one it keeps doing wrong.

It probably isn't that big of a deal, although it might make a bad impression if it takes an employer to an invalid site and they notice it is spelled wrong. Assuming their PDF reader incorrectly interprets the URL also.

I want to keep it as text, especially since when I converted it to outlines it screwed up the lowercase "L's". I could just convert the incorrect URL to outlines and force them to type it into their browser manually.

Mynock, how do I lock the pdf? Is it a setting when you export from Illy or in Acrobat. Is it password protected?

[hewligan]

So don't produce the links from Illustrator, just add them later in Acrobat.

You can lock the file using File -> Document properties, and then the security tab in Acrobat.

[jm1786]

So don't produce the links from Illustrator, just add them later in Acrobat.

You can lock the file using File -> Document properties, and then the security tab in Acrobat.

Illustrator doesn't produce the links. Acrobat Reader does. So I guess that answers my question. If I add them later in Acrobat they will overwrite and overrule anyone who has the preference in Acrobat Reader turned on that automatically generates URL's from text.

I was worried if I put the link over top of the text manually that it would conflict somehow with the link which I thought was embedded by Illustrator but is really just a setting in the Acrobat Reader.

Thanks for all the help!

[urstwile]

What if you put the link in (in Illustrator) in a way that wouldn't get automatically formatted as a link in Acrobat? Like leave off the http://www part? And then put the link in manually after the PDF is created?