Links Not Working/Not Clickable in Exported PDFs? FIXED!

Yes I agree this is defininitly causing me grief. Along with a bunch of other changes in the update.

Can you tell me how you were able to open the Word doc in Pages 4.1. When I try to open it I get the message "You need a newer version of Pages to open this document."

Thanks

I, too, have been struggling to resinstate hyperlinks in PDF documents made from Pages - or even to create links within Preview. All this used to work fine until my recent upgrades, and I used it a lot.

So far I have found that links seem to work in PDFs created in the new Pages 5.0.1 but only in the first page of a document, whereas PDFs made from the old Pages 4.3 (iWork '09) seem to fare rather better.

So I suppose the conversion back to 4.3 would be a sensible course of action. Intriguingly, 5.0.1 does not seem to have replaced 4.3 on my hard drive, even though I trashed the icon for it on my Applications folder (before I realised that I would still need it)!

Apple doesn't seem to have made any statement about this so far, apart from a promise to restore functionality to Pages, but there does seem still to be a problem with Preview, or perhaps with the OS itself. I can't add links directly to PDFs in Preview. And even links created in Microsoft Word are not carried over into PDFs - not even on the first page.

I continue to experiment, but am frustrated by the loss of such an important and useful facility. Preview used to do most of what I needed for sharing documents; now it is sadly inadequate. Apple has boobed badly here.

I have tried all of the steps suggested and am still not able to acomplish what I am trying to do. I have a newsletter that I created and send out weekly. So far exporting it from Pages to word and the opening with Pages 09 and then to PDF was the only way I could keep the links active but all the formatting is ruined by the end of that. I tried exporting from pages 09 and then to PDF but still no active links. I have already put a lot of effort into the basic format I use to make this newsletter every month and the way I have it now it makes it much easier for me to insert the new info qucikly. Right now I have been sending it out as an attachment of the original pages document but that leaves it able to be edited and would much prefer to send it as a PDF. 😕

Like I said before the export directly to pages 09 does not keep the links active. It only works in the steps given at the start of this tread. Also as I previously said I have alredy spent a lot of time creating the document and am not starting over again. I was hoping for some info on keeping the links active using the document I already have, if it comes down to it I will continue to send it out in its regular pages format. That would be better than starting all over again. If anyone has a suggestion for keeping the links active without ruining the formating that would be great.

Did you not have it as a Pages '09 document, where everything works, before you painstakingly converted it into the Pages 5 document where it does not?

Besides which the templates in Pages '09 work way better than Pages 5 where there is no Textbox linking.

There is a reason the Pages 5 templates look as drab as they do.

Pages is a dog for layout work and regular templated versions. No rtf, no facing pages, no style sheet imports, clumsy access to settings, no non-contiguous text selection, huge waste of screen real estate, the list goes on and on.

You will probably be back here when Pages 5.?? (beta) eventually can't open its own documents because of yet another bug.

Peter

No my document was created in the current version of pages. I had to utilize a computer that is not mine in order to try the export that way and it did not work. I think it is the type of document and level of formating that stopped that work around from resolving the issue for me. It seems to have worked for most other people but for my document it just turned half or it to nonsense. If I had 09 available on my computer I am sure i could fix the formating and save and export the PDF that way but I do not so for now it will just have to be a pages document and for those who cant view it that way it will be a PDF and they can look up that info without the links. Thanks for trying to help I will just have to wait until the issue is resolved in the current version.

I do not have 09, my computer did not have it iWork it is brand new and the only version of pages is the current. I qucikly asked somene to try that work around for me and what they sent back was nonsense, could have been human error I have no way of knowing.. Will just have to deal with it as is but thanks

Fruhulda, I'm using Pages '09 with hyperlinks and wonder why, when I export to PDF the links arent' clickable either. Any idea? I'm at version 4.5. I have another computer that upgraded and hate the new version of Pages, so just stuck with the older one - plus I was in the middle of this 300 page book, so I did NOT want to switch!

I appreciate any clue as to why this is happening. Thanks!

This may help, and it's one of those DUH me moments I just had. I was having the same issue. While I'm working (in Pages '09, Version 4.5) I tend to hit the links, so I usually work with the "make all hyperlinks inactive" radio button clicked. Well, if you export to a PDF with that clicked, guess what? The links will not be active upon export.

Please, no snarky responses. I feel dumb enough as it is! But at least I figured it out finally! Hope this helps someone out there!

So why don't you use the Pages 09 from the beginning instead of the round about to get something that is a feature in Pages 5.0?

Strange work around. As fruhulda said just use Pages '09 which btw should be at v4.3.

Also Pages 5 has a direct export back to Pages '09, no need to go via Word.

Peter

Upgrading an applicationdoes never delete earlier versions. Only updates change the existing application.

Just create the newsletter in Pages '09 where the links all work.

There is nothing you need in Pages 5. Quite the reverse.

Why didn't you simply export to Pages '09, why go via Word .doc/x?

Peter

Can't you activate the link in Pages09? Why not just use only Pages 09 which do work.

Katie you better start yout own thread as oyu are not using the same version of Pages. It would also help if you told which MacOs version you have on the computer.