[markhalley]

A workaround I found seems to be less painful, but not as nice for the end-product.

I have a Word doc with 10 URL links at the end. In Word they're formatted to just display the desired text. But to make them work when converted to a PDF, I ended-up copying the URL portion of the links & pasted them right next to their Word-formatted links, but put the "http://blah blah blah" inside parentheses & with really small font.

Doesn't look the best in the PDF, but at least my URL links are there & I didn't have to manually recreate them in the PDF itself.

Hope this idea helps.

This post has been edited by markhalley: 23 July 2012 - 12:01 PM

[al65]

 KunalMankodiya, on 28 December 2011 - 06:08 PM, said:

I am not sure, if it is too late. However, i can find only one solution. The online converter "http://www.convertfiles.com" worked great for me. I had my thesis generated in Mac ms word 2011 with lots of hyperlinks. All of them retained in converted PDF

Try it out,
Kunal

This works well, thanks for posting! For those who are interested, I compared the PDF output of the ConvertFiles.com tool with that from the similar tool, YouConvertIt.com http://www.youconvertit.com. I think the fonts in the YouConvertIt PDF are better than those output via ConvertFiles.com (using Arial as the original Word 2011 for Mac as the font - haven't tried other fonts yet). I also used Googledocs to upload the Word doc and then export/download to PDF for comparison. Googledocs also preserves hyperlinks as the other online conversion tools above do, but I found that the hyperlink underline was thicker on the GDocs version. For many, these are unimportant details, but some may find it helpful.

If the full URL address is written in the Word doc, then both Save As... PDF and Print -> PDF preserve links in my experience, however if the URL is replaced with an alias (not showing the full http:// text) then the links are not preserved. I haven't found a way around this within Word 2011 for Mac.

[al65]

 macnuke, on 09 December 2011 - 10:30 AM, said:

open your Word.doc.

File > Print

when Print dialogue box comes up.. select the PDF drop down on the lower left and select Save As PDF.
your links should all be just fine in the resulting PDF.

it's a feature

If the full URL address is written in the Word doc, then both Save As... PDF and Print -> PDF seem to preserve links in my experience, however if the URL is replaced with an alias (not showing the full http:// text) then the links are not preserved. I haven't found a way around this within Word 2011 for Mac.

[AlexGillan]

 zarmanto, on 08 March 2011 - 11:41 AM, said:

I think the real solution for this is (unfortunately) buy a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Pro product. In Acrobat, the hyperlinks can be customized in various ways (to include dealing with those black borders more elegantly) but I don't think that any of the free products support embedded hyperlinks -- and the "print-to-PDF" tools built into Word and Mac OS X are really intended to be exactly as advertised: optimized for printing, not digital distribution.

I have Adobe Pro... but that makes no difference when converting from a Word doc to an Adobe PDF - the hyperlinks do not convert. The problem is with Word in its PDF conversion.

This post has been edited by AlexGillan: 02 September 2012 - 03:04 PM

[tclethbridge]

It works in Word 2011 only if you are in Web Page Preview mode! This is secret why some users found it works and some users did not.

[alexanderr]

If you paste your link in this web tool: http://kitpdf.com/web_to_pdf/ you will have a PDF out of your web page. Try it.