New Hyperlink Color

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Fabini Author

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New Hyperlink Color

I am having trouble changing a hyperlink color.

My default is red and I wwant it to be blue.

I create a new hyperlink, modify the font, size, and color as I want.

I "Create Character Style From Selection".

When I use Link Inspector - Enable as a hyperlink - email, it changes font and size, but not color.

The default red is always used.

This happens if I make the text a link first or if I make the changes first and then make it a link.

What am I doing wrong?

Default: My Hyperlink

Desire: My Hyperlink

Muchas Gracias

Posted on Dec 12, 2012 6:33 AM

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 7:01 AM in response to Fabini

This baffles me, my text is designated as blue, but the hyperlink overrides it and sets it to the defaullt of red.

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Dec 12, 2012 7:01 AM in response to Fabini

I am experiencing the same thing. I have tried to create a new font in the font inspector but can't seem to make that work either.

I have noticed that it does change the font colour when previewed on the iPad although when exported as a PDF it keeps the red. My document is white on black and the red just looks awful.

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K T

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Dec 12, 2012 7:03 AM in response to Fabini

Did you see my iBA Tips and Tricks 01?

...should be the first tip at the top.

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 7:09 AM in response to K T

Thanks KT, yes I did look there. I also used the Help file and the User Manual. Following directions, this keeps occuring.

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 7:13 AM in response to georginalester

georginalester - I just fired up my iPad and previewed the book to take a look at the links. They are all red. Boo Hoo

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Wait! I typed too soon. One test hyperlink was correctly formatted & blue. Now I have to figure out why that one instance, and why it does not give correct feedback in iBooks Author. Interesting.

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Dec 12, 2012 7:14 AM in response to K T

@KT Awesome! That worked.... Thank you

@Fabini - was just going to say Boo Hoo - but then I saw that you have edited your reply! So ....

Fantastic.

I love it when things just work straight away.

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K T

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Dec 12, 2012 7:25 AM in response to georginalester

🙂

Thanks for the followup and good luck w/your books.

Ken

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 7:31 AM in response to georginalester

georginalester wrote:

@Fabini - was just going to say Boo Hoo - but then I saw that you have edited your reply! So ....

I haven't been as lucky as you. What appears to be happening for me is all the hyperlinks appear red in iBooks Author. However, one (but not all) of my attempts comes out as I wish after Previewing the book on my iPad.

So I am about to run a test and figure out how I can get my hyperlinks to appear as I wish in both places. I'll post my results.

Do all your reformatted hyperlinks look fine in both places?

Cheers

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Dec 12, 2012 7:59 AM in response to Fabini

@Fabini - It does work although I noticed that I had to 'trick' it into believing that I was doing soemthing different. Being completely new to this, I am not sure whether this is entirely accurate but heyho - I can only try! 😉

For some reason when I tried to edit the hyperlink the first time, it wouldn't let me redefine the style but instead thought that I was using the same formatting as "Figure Reference" which of course

I got around it by giving the Figure Reference everything that I didn't want - different colour, removed underline, etc. and then selected something I wanted to hyperlink giving that the format, colour, etc that I did want. That allowed me to redefine the style from selection. That also updated all the other hyperlinks in the book. I have looked at it in Preview but not exported to PDF but it matches on both design display on iBooks Author and on the iPad.

Does that make sense at all?

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 8:23 AM in response to Fabini

Here's my procedure for making a formatted hyperlink:

After making the text blue, right-clicking on Hyperlink in the Styles Drawer does not allow me to make a new hyperlink style from selection.

If you can show me the error of my ways, I greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 8:25 AM in response to georginalester

Geo - Yes you make sense. What I took from it is that you make the changes to Figure Reference before switching to Email. Correct? I'll give it a try.

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Dec 12, 2012 8:32 AM in response to Fabini

@Fabini - I would look to see which "Style" it highlights when you highlight the text and then see if it switches to another "Style" when you try to amend it. I noticed that it kept going to "Figure Reference" every time I tried to change "Hyperlink". For you it might be different.

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 8:36 AM in response to georginalester

Here is a screen shot from my iPad. Note that the last hyperlink is correctly in blue. It shows as red in iBooks Author on my iMac.

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 10:51 AM in response to Fabini

Here is how a new Hyperlink 2 looks on my iMac in iBooks Author:

The Character Style is blue, but the text stays red. And here it is on my iPad:

Hard to see, but it is in blue as it should be.

So why do my efforst to modify show up correctly on the Mac?

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Fabini Author

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Dec 12, 2012 11:09 AM in response to Fabini

I am using the Portrait Only - Biography - template.

The modified email links I create show up in the native color red in iBooks Author, but appear in the different color I desire, in this case blue, on my iPad. Otherwise they look the way I modify them. I shall try a completely different template and see if this holds true. Stay tuned.

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