How can I save a Word document as a PDF whilst retaining hyperlinks?

Pages from iWork does that fine.

you are most certainly wrong on this. 😊

Of course Word can save hyperlinks to PDF

Word document > PRINT > PDF

all hyperlinks are saved.

I do it all the time.

You're right - it doesn't work on a Mac: not even with Adobe Acrobat Pro.

That's why I have to use Word for Windows running under Parallels. I'm now running Windows Pro 64-bit and Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and hyperlinks are fuly functional using the Windows version. It's not a bug, it's just that Adobe hasn't invested much effort into support Acrobat/Word on a Mac, I suppose.

If you're willing to make the investment in Windows, Office 2013 (which I'm now using) and Acrobat Pro XI, you can easily save PDF files with active hyperlinks. I notice that "AussieDJ" says that it works in Pages - although I have Pages, I've not tried it as Pages is a joke as far as I'm concerned.

Just one more thing you can accomplish on a Windows machine that you can't do on a Mac...

Clinton

I just cehcked this Help page -> https://help.apple.com/pages/mac/5.0/#/tand51db403 - for Pages, but I don't see "Insert>Link" in the newest version of Pages. I seriously doubt that Pages would do what Word/Acrobat will not.

Clinton

Is there not a free PDF printer that works?

No. It's a sizeable investment, at that. You would think that it would be fairly simple but you need Windows, Word for Windows and Acrobat Pro to accomplish what you want to do. I've been looking for another solution that would work on a Mac for years now, but could find nothing. If you create a lot of documents with a lot of hyperlinks and want to keep those hyperlinks intact, there's only one way to go about it.

I'm still holding out some hope that there will be an "Office 2014 for Mac" and an update to Acrobat Pro that will allow me to just use OS X, but I'm not holding my breath...

Sorry,

Clinton

I'm using an old version of Pages but it definately has hyperlinks & I just did a test & exported it as a PDF and the hyperlink works.

I know it's not the best word processor, but I can't think of anything else that would be useful to you.

AussieDJ,

The "Hyperlink" menu item isn't in version 5.1:

Maybe the OP could find an older version...somewhere?

But dealing with Pages for a professional document? Nah...

Clinton

Heh that's weird.

Ben-and-Nadine wrote:

I know that Word can't do it (not on Mac anyway).

What other software (ideally free) can do it though?

Libre Office (and Open Office) will save functional hyperlinks in a .pdf file. Both are free and both are significantly better than Pages.

Here's a screenshot, Libre Office, I used the Export to PDF option, all links preserved.

Just tested it again with acrobat pro 11 and latest Word for Mac

Web links are present in the PDF

Won't work for me... I've never been able to get it to work with OS X.

Clinton