I finally managed to convert both text and images to hyperlink on my iMac, but it was too much trouble, and I think Adobe was required. Anyway is there free and simple way to convert to hyperlink without Adobe, which I THINK is only available on a temporary basis.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
Niku wrote:
Anyway, let me be more basic: I want to convert words, and numbers, and pictures, anything and everything, into links that I can send to people as E-mail attachments, or post on the Internet.
You cannot convert words, numbers, or pictures into a hyperlink (or link or URL) any more than you can convert an entire letter into a printed address label.
You can, if your files (be they composed of words, numbers, pictures, or some combination thereof) are housed in the appropriate place, share a link to that file with other people. An appropriate place would be on something like Dropbox, One Drive, or Google Drive.
Why don't you just email the file to people?
Depending on where you want to share a file on "the Internet", the site you have in mind may have a way of uploading the file to the site directly.
Niku wrote:
Anyway, let me be more basic: I want to convert words, and numbers, and pictures, anything and everything, into links that I can send to people as E-mail attachments, or post on the Internet.
You cannot convert words, numbers, or pictures into a hyperlink (or link or URL) any more than you can convert an entire letter into a printed address label.
You can, if your files (be they composed of words, numbers, pictures, or some combination thereof) are housed in the appropriate place, share a link to that file with other people. An appropriate place would be on something like Dropbox, One Drive, or Google Drive.
Why don't you just email the file to people?
Depending on where you want to share a file on "the Internet", the site you have in mind may have a way of uploading the file to the site directly.
You cannot convert a file to a hyperlink. That would be like asking to convert a letter to a printed address label. Perhaps if you could explain what your larger goal is, it would help get a useful answer.
"Adobe" is a company that makes a number of different applications. Which one have you used before?
You can use HTML (a type of code that tells a web browser how to display the file) in a file. And you can create a hyperlink (an address) to a file.
I finally found an easy way to convert pictures to links. It's not the way I had wanted. I had wanted a simple way to use Apple, but not Adobe. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem possible. Anyway, the object was supposed to have been to convert a picture to a link, and you can do it with this tool: https://imgur.com
Getting to this point wasn't easy, but I'm too tired to say more. Anyway, this place supposed to be about Apple, not me.
Niku wrote:
I finally found an easy way to convert pictures to links. It's not the way I had wanted. I had wanted a simple way to use Apple, but not Adobe. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem possible. Anyway, the object was supposed to have been to convert a picture to a link, and you can do it with this tool: https://imgur.com
You're still not converting pictures to links. You're uploading a picture (i.e. a file) to imgur.com and then sharing a link to that file. The picture is still a picture. Think of it as putting a letter (picture) in an envelope (uploading it to imgur) and putting an address on the envelope (generating the link).
You know you can accomplish the same thing using any cloud service like iCloud, GoogleDrive, OneDrive, etc.
What you are doing is still not what you asked to do in your original post in this thread.
You are not understanding. You are not "Converting files to hyperlink" regardless what you think you are doing. You are storing files on a file server then linking to those files with a hyperlink. You can't do that locally on your computer if you want others to access those files. You are not running a file server locally. As already explained to you, you can create symbolic links to local files on your local machine.
I don't quite understand you, You seem to be saying that I can't do something but then tell me how to do it. However, you just caught me halfway through testing a solution I found just now on the Internet, Here it is:
I'll let you know how things work out
PS: I've found that I have at least one HTML converter already installed in my computer, and there are many free one available on the Internet.
Today was the first time I've ever used the word, "hyperlink." I've always used "link" before, or sometimes "URL," or sometimes "URL link," but I thought that "hyperlink" was the word that grownups used. Anyway, let me be more basic: I want to convert words, and numbers, and pictures, anything and everything, into links that I can send to people as E-mail attachments, or post on the Internet.
Covering too many subjects in one message can be counterproductive, so let's forget Adobe for now. Oh, yes, I HAVE been successful in doing what I'm asking you about, but don't ask me to tell you how I did it. I'd have to go back to recreate my steps; however, I know that some version/kind of Adobe played a role in at least some of the successful efforts. One of...no, let's forget Adobe for now. I'm looking for an Adobe-free way.
I'm quitting for the day. My computer doesn't give me a choice. When I try to convert my PDF file to HTML, it makes me use Adobe, and I don't want to do that. I've found that that way leads to success, but there are reasons why I want to use another way. Well, that's all for today. I have other things to do. Thanks for your help.
I think you are confusing Hyperlinks (links) with content. A link is a pointer to content. A person clicks on the link to view the content at the link location. For example, this hyperlink (link), https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252468562 provides a link to the content in this thread of yours. Your content and users responses were not changed to a link.
Another example, here is a link, https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ to Apple's MacBook Air site. Non of the content at that site was changed to a link.
Converting text to HTML is not the same thing as creating a link. HTML is Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a language used by browsers to display content on the web. It is not a hyperlink (link).
imgur is a image hosting site so you can show other people your photos, suspect it will likely not keep your photos in a lossless format and unless you set them to private we can all see them.
a hyperlink is just an url pointing to a place on the internet
if you wanted to keep your files on your home computer then you should likely have used
and if you wanted to keep your files outside of third party players who may at one point begin to charge you then you should likely have gotten a NAS Network-attached storage - Wikipedia
I get what you're saying, but I think that the process you've described does what I set out to do: Picture>link>picture. Someone, somewhere, can click on a link prepared by Imgur from my picture and see that picture. What I hated about the Adobe route was that I want to send a PICTURE, not an announcement by Adobe that "Oscar is sending you a picture. Just click here and...." Oh, and the Adobe way is just too much trouble.
Well, it is, and it isn't. However, in the larger picture, IT IS, and I am not willing to engage in a discussion about semantics. Picture>link>picture. That's what it does. I would rather have been able to do it without 3rd parties, including Adobe, but I am not willing to spend any more time on a search for the perfect solution.
I knew you'd be back. You are missing the point. You like to talk about semantics. I want get the job done. Okay, here's my idea of the perfect way. 1. put the picture/text/whatever into a box 2. Select "make link" from the choices. 3. Select destination from choices. 4. Click button
LOL. You came here and asked how to do something. You were provided the answer to your question. Now we are missing the point because you really wanted to do something other than what you asked. You have since been advised regarding alternatives how to accomplish your real goal and you still want to criticize the assistance you are being offered.
We are users like you. We are not Apple. We can not change how hyperlinks, file servers, remote access work. You found a way to do what you want. There are alternative ways, none of which involve convering files to links. All of which involve linking to files. Semantics makes a lot of difference and is critical when talking about technology.
Converting files to hyperlink
