Jakob, > > co-workers of mine have trouble with some long URLs that break over > > lines and some may also contain "special" characters such as question > > marks or parentheses. Please note that we're using Acrobat to create > > the PDF and that the Generate Tagged PDF option is selected (as > > documented here: http://www.frameusers.com/2007/09/ second article). ...
When a PDF does not have "real" links, you are relying on Acrobat/Reader "Create Links from URLs" preference (Edit > Preferences, General; in versions 7 it is called "Automatically detect URLs from text"). With all versions of Acrobat/Reader: when longer web links that are split between lines are auto-detected, only the portion present in the first line is used, resulting in an incorrect or partial link. The presence of special characters may also "disturb" the auto-detection, and truncate the resulting link. There are some variations as to special characters causing the problems, depending on the Acrobat/Reader version being used. To have fully-functional links in all versions of Reader, I recommend adding hypertext links in FrameMaker (as Lief suggested), so that a "real" links are present in the PDF (and not relying on auto-detected ones). Shlomo Perets MicroType * http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants
