Word 2016 for mac not manage hyperlink when .doc is converted into .pdf

Anonymous
2015-09-24T14:03:23+00:00

Hi,

I'm using Word 2016 on Mac, but when I save a .pdf file from a .doc document it lost hyperlink.

In details, if I want to create an hyperlink starting to a simple word (ex: industry name) who take me to industry's website, saving .doc as .pdf will lost the hyperlink, but formatted word remain ad an hypertext.

How can I solve this issue?

Thanks.

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Anonymous
2016-08-01T09:14:56+00:00

Actually, there is a way to generate PDF files including hyperlinks with Word 2016 for Mac :

1 - Insert hyperlinks in your document,

2 - Go to "Save as...", choose PDF and check the box "Best for electronic distribution and accessibility" instead of "Best for printing",

3 - Save. It will take a while as it uses Microsoft online services but then the generated PDF file includes hyperlinks!

Hope it will be useful to someone.

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Anonymous
2016-08-18T13:39:05+00:00

Well, the folks at Microsoft have done some tweaking and adjustments and the feature is now active.
If you don’t have any Right-to-left input method (in Keyboards) or language (in Language & Region) active in the System Preferences, and you use a version of Word >15.23.1, then the options should now be visible when you use the Save As command and select PDF.

The file is processed through an online service and you get a Tagged PDF (with all forms of links active).
Make sure you select: Best for online distribution and accessibility
 Corentin

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Anonymous
2017-12-04T18:11:14+00:00

This really did not help. "Best for electronic distribution and accessibility" does not retain the quality of visuals at all. in fact it also converts symbols as junk characters. 

Any other more sustainable solutions? Thanks!

Nope… There is no good option in Word.

As you’ve seen, you can 1. generate it through the MS online services, get the metafunctions like links, etc, but loose embedded fonts and the high quality of the artwork. 2. Use the macOS PDF Services which retain fonts and original artwork, but do not add metafunctions like links, etc.

The only option to get both is to open up the document in another app that will offer that (OpenOffice??) with the risk of seeing slight layout differences, or open up the document on Windows where Word can natively generate a full-featured PDF :-\

Corentin

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-05-23T09:22:44+00:00

    Not working for OSX with Microsoft Word 2016 (version 15.33) for me...

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-05-21T13:08:24+00:00

    Susanne 1111:

    While this method works now (Hyperlinks are saved), the conversion itself is very bad in that many fonts and special symbols disappear. Is there a way to avoid that?

    I did a test, and Susanne 1111 supposition is correct I did testing of my own. But I am not sure it a Bug or a limitation of the service used to do the conversion.

    Here are two samples using  Export to PDF then choosing "Best for Electronic Distribution" and "Best for Print":

    I think it is a Limitation of the service naturally because The computers at the service only would have loaded only Office Fonts, Window fonts that come with the system and, Fonts that comes natively with MacOS. Many people myself use Purchased fonts and possibly freeware fonts. There is no way Microsoft could load all known fonts on one computer system and would make the service unaffordable.

    So If you need URLs in Documents to look like wat you created you are going to have to fall back on time test methods of conversion.  Save In In Pages making sure that all links including embedded links (The first screenshot is a sample of an embedded URL) are working then export as Word Document that can be converted, through using Print command PDF.  Or save directly as a PDF from Pages.  Or open through LibreOffice and do similar as with Pages. Or, if you happen to own Acrobat go to print menu click on PDF then choose to save as Adobe PDF.  

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