Add ability to hyperlink text (properly this time)
In June of 2023 the Illustrator team fixed a old bug with hyperlinks added through Attributes panel being dropped while exporting as PDF.
The team thought of it as a solution to this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40418827 — and marked it as such.
I do not agree.
The solution is nowhere final, done in the most basic way possible, merely a bug fixed, like if no-one in the team did try to make it useful at the level of today's standards.
— A partial text selection can't be made into a hyperlink.
— No widgets are given on the canvas to see if an object has a hyperlink assigned or not, and to open the link directly from the canvas (with or without a modifier).
— Attributes gives no way to jump to a previous/next hyperlink in the document.
— The 'browser' button uses the IE browser, not the assigned one at the OS level.
— If I cover an object which has a hyperlink assigned, with another object that has another hyperlink, the area they shared together is overtaken by the one which is below, and not according to their z-order.
— 'Polygon' image map option does not work, the object gets a rectangle area still. The sacred knowledge about creating polygonal image maps in Ai is long lost, and the only mention the official manual has about it is here (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/slices-image-maps.html) — but it never actually tells how to create these. Surely not via rectangular-only slices. It should just happen automatically, and it does not.
— What about automation? To have the links to be auto-tagged, like this solution for InD does (https://www.id-extras.com/products/hyperlinkpro/)?
— What about auto styling, like InD provides?
— Will we be able to fine tune the look of the Character’s 'Underline' option? Nobody places lines this close to text anymore on web.
So yes, this should be made BETTER.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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LR Klancher commented
Indesign does it. PPT does it. MS Word does it. Emails do it... its time Adobe Illustrator word can be highlighted and hot-linked to a url. I do a fair amount of 1-2 page designs in Illustrator - like 20+ years. In order to make a word or book title or reference link to an outside website, I need to make it a PDF and create the link in Acrobat. The problem with this step is when the client make changes - which I make edits back in the native AI file, I have to redo all the PDF links. This can be time consuming for one, and two... there is the occasional - "Oh **** - I forgot to add the link back in" prior to sending to client.
I do not understand why this essential feature keep eluding the great AI.
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Choolee commented
While it's nice someone finally paid attention to this hyperlink issue, (after years and years of users begging for it), it's definitely not an elegant solution. Please bring it up to today's standards! Let us hyperlink like normal modern people. 🙏🏾
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Luke Luke commented
thank you for text thank you
https://thankyou.my.id=thank you
or <a
/html/body/wp-loading/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[1]/article/div[1]/div/div/p[2]/ahref=http://www.example.com>Example</a> -
To be able to embed text for example for this:
https://thankyou.my.id/ for text thank you
<a href="https://thankyou.my.id/">thank you</a>
or <a href=http://www.example.com>Example</a> -
Tom
commented
Have the same functionality as InDesigner, where you can sign URLs to objects, making them interactive in PDF format. The current workaround of opening and adding the link in Acrobat isn't good enough - if you need to edit the illustrator file you then have to re-add all of the links!
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Anonymous
commented
Within text or via image, shape, etc insert link to external file or website
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Anonymous
commented
Right now you must use Acrobat or InDesign to integrate hyperlinks in the file. You can do the 0% opacity trick (putting a hyperlink in 0% opacity on top of the text you want to link) but it's not usable or efficient.
I have so many files that are 90% illustrations, so it's the best for me to use Illustrator, but I would love to include the links in the file, not having to edit it in other software afterwards...