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Interactive hyperlinks in InDesign

Interactive hyperlinks in InDesign

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Interactive hyperlinks in InDesign

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- [Instructor] We learned in chapter three, that implicit hyperlinks in a PDF file, are audit detected by Acrobat and made clickable. We also learned that those links are not accessible. So in order for links in our document to be accessible, we need to create an actual hyperlink for that text in InDesign so that the link is properly tagged in the export in PDF file. I'm going to go ahead and navigate to page eight of this document, and at the bottom of that page we have a hyperlink that I want to be a clickable link in the export PDF file. So to create that hyperlink properly, we're going to open up our hyperlinks panel in InDesign. And you're going to find that by going to the window menu under interactive hyperlinks. And to create a new hyperlink, what you're going to want to do is highlight the text that you want to become the link. And in the hyperlinks panel, I'm going to click the plus sign to create a new hyperlink.…

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