Acrobat: Adding E-Mail Hyperlinks

[Shlomo Perets]

Jim,

You wrote:

>Is there an easy way to add an e-mail hyperlink to an already created
>PDF document? We're using Acrobat 6, and, although I can readily add
>some links, creating the e-mail variety isn't obvious. Unfortunately,
>Acrobat is not picking up the hyperlink in the source document, at least
>not in a way that can be read by anything below Reader 7, which not all
>of our readership will have.

To create web links (including e-mail links) automatically for an existing 
PDF, try: Advanced > Links > Create From URLs In Document

Acrobat's interpretation of text-based web addresses is problematic when 
the URL is split between lines, or when the "underlying" text is not 
recognized properly. In the case of e-mail addresses, the presence of 
characters such as dot, underscore or dash disrupts the resulting link (so 
that a link to b at company.com is created, instead of a_b at company.com).

To create or fix web links manually, use the standard Link tool (the action 
is "open a web page"; specify the full address, starting with "mailto:").


Shlomo Perets

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