Is there a possibility to add links to certain pages in a pdf on preview?

Preview lost this link annotation capability after Snow Leopard (10.6.8). You will need a PDF Editor from the Mac App Store to add links to an existing PDF document.

Does not work with any key combination with Preview in Catalina. The hand that appears is the selection hand for the text annotation box, not the contained link reference. Triple-clicking the annotation to select its contained text, and then a contextual menu open url is not in the spirit of a true PDF link annotation.

This does not work as you describe in Preview on macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G4032), or on Catalina 10.15.4 (19E266).

Here is how a proper link (on the word "Lorem") should appear in a PDF, though my Python solution is at the mercy of Apple's PDFKit framework, and does not provide that convenient blue hyperlink:

No, not a clickable link. You could of course type URLs into text boxes but they wouldn't be clickaable.

YES, you can:

on the page where you want the link to be: click Preview->Tools->Annotate click "Text",

then grab the annotate spot that is somewhere on the page, make it as big as you need,

put the link in the annotation, save the document.

When you click the annotation it opens Safari, et voilà.

Well, doesn't work here. FWIW, here, if you add a text annotation with a link, save the PDF, You can open it in Preview, triple click the annotation, you can right/control click on it and select "Open URL" from the drop down menu…

Of course even that only works in Preview. Not in other PDF readers so if you send it to someone without Preview, or open it in a different PDF reader it doesn't work.

It used to be that one could programmatically add a link via AppleScript/Objective-C, or Python/Objective-C — but Apple has so deprecated the link annotation capabilities of the Quartz PDFKit framework that now, I can still add a link, but there is no visual clue that a link is there until I roll over it, or close my eyes, and accept a horrid, blue box around the linked text. D'oh.

VikingOSX wrote:

This does not work as you describe in Preview on macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G4032), or on Catalina 10.15.4 (19E266).

Indeed.

my travel Macbookpro 2018-2019 MacOS Mojave latest update.

Works as I said.

As far as I remember it worked like that also in HighSierra. Further back I can not check because I am not at home: already blocked for a rather long time in another country.

Just tried it again:

in a PDF document (probably made by Preview, I do not know for sure),

I put in a link (copied from a website), as above

Selected it completely and it put me in Safari where the link points to.

To be sure: before this I deleted the link in Safari memory where it may have been.

I have nothing exotic on the mac, Mojave since December, nothing excotic running, except for Dropbox, Flycut, BlueHarvest. No other software running permanently. It even starts Safari when not running. Emptied Flycut after putting in the link, before using the link in the PDF.

Yes, I believe you, but here on a very simplistic macbookpro (with touchbar) it works as I said, and did a number of times today.

Maybe because I am not at home, but blocked in another country? But I am not hampered by a virus luckily. Just blocked at the near border (not my country), next week I will try the tour through another country.

I will not upgrade to Catalina, because I use Lightroom 6.14.

You must be using different Macs than VikingOSX and I. 😎

Yes well, I've tried Lexieplex's method now in Catalina and Mojave and it doesn't work for me. Maybe I'm missing something. I could try it in High Sierra but I suspect it's not going to work there.

I agree.