iWork Pages not saving hyperlinks in PDF

Same problem here, very frustrating. Except that the links work fine in the regular text area. It's only when hyperlinks are in a table that the hyperlinks don't carry over to PDF exports.

Any updates? Upgrades to fix this? Or am I missing something (user error)?

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I'm using OS X 10.8.2 on a late 2012 27" iMac with the software Pages 4.3.

Has anyone found a solution? Please, help!!!

Someone else posted a similar question a little while ago. Someone else posted a reponse that the links work if the program opening the PDF is set to acknolwedge links. It will work in Adobe Acrobat, but it won't work in Preview for example.

Thanks for your reply. Where in Acrobat is this setting?

One thing still doesn't make sense. In my document, it does recognizes/acknowledges links in the regular text ... so why won't it recognize/acknowledge links in the table?

Couldn't get it to work. I deleted the text/hyperlink and tabbed to make a space where it was, inserted a text box in it's place with the same text/hyperlink and printed it to pdf and now it works! A lot of time spent trying and a make-shift fix, but it worked!

I'm having the same problem. I was trying to hyperlink text inside a shape (a rectangular page border). When I saved to PDF, the link became inactive. However, after REMOVING the rectangle (page border), and printing the document to PDF again, the link became active. How weird is that?

I used to hyperlink text inside all kinds of shapes and PDFs were fine. Not sure when this bug surfaced. Could it be with Mt. Lion? Hope there's a fix soon. This makes Pages practically useless to me in quite a lot of situations.

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The same here! And it's frustrating cause whole my workflow became messed up! And what is more, the TOC links don't export either.

UPD: Export to Pages '09 messes links up as well.

Now in pages 5 Hyperlinks are still NOT working in Tables when the document is exported or printed to PDF

Is there any solutions to such an obvious bug?!? Any way to make links in tables work when exporting to PDF?

To me, with pages 5, hyperlinks only work in the first page of the pdf. I've tried with several documents and the results are always the same.

With the previous version I had no problem at all. If I export the same pages document with both versions, I'm only having trouble with the newest version.

Having the same issues here. I've literally done everything to fix the link, and when I go to click on it in Preview after I've exported the document as a PDF, it just beeps at me with the error sound effect. Weird thing is, other links I'm adding have no problem at all... Not sure whats going on here.

I figured it out! I was using the Calibri font, which I had to install myself because it wasn't native to Mac. When I switched my whole document to a native Mac font (I chose Gill Sans) all the hyperlinks worked when I exported the document! Some only worked when the document actually displayed the URL (instead of displaying a sentence or word in place of the URL. Phewf!

Here's an easier fix: Links Not Working/Not Clickable in Exported PDFs? FIXED!

Not sure if anyone found a good working solution. For me, so far, the only thing I found that worked is a) links on the first page will remain when converting to PDF and b) all links typed out as in full URLs & full email addresses, will work. Nothing else works so far.

I have created boxes, brought them to the front - to no good use. I am a newby to apple/mac and have not been able to remove the template borders which someone suggested somewhere online might be an issue too. Most windows users will have Adobe Acrobat and I am checking all my created PDFs against Acrobat and found the same issue with hyperlinks as in Preview.

Any other good working solutions? Good free PDF converter software that will work?

I am using OS X Maverick, Pages 5.0 and I am using a standard newsletter template.

@mamboe29 I am experiencing exactly the same problem as you described here and it is really frustrating. I was in contact with apple support and explained the issue, they promised they would forward it to their developers, I am not sure what the outcome will be though. The weird thing is that hyperlinks will work on the first page when exporting the pages document to pdf, but not on subsequent ones. (I am using Mavericks as well with the latest Pages version.) I have searched for alternative solutions for hours but cannot find anything ... it really *****.