Just an idea to find out where exactly in the production line the Hotlinks fail:
> This may suggest that it is a pdftops or ps2pdf problem _BUT_ it used to > work in the Scribus 1.3 series!!! I still have copies here from that > time that still work fine!! So to my mind something has been changed, > (or omitted), in Scribus version 1.4 that stops the links from 'getting > through' to the end pdf file. > Do you still have a 1.3 version running? I would try making a pdf from there to see if newer Linux versions could break this. A freshly made pdf still working, however, would show it's Scribus 1.4 which goes wrong. Rolf
