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Create clickable references in Pages' PDFs
Authored by: palahala on Fri, Mar 28 2008 at 4:15PM PDT

Hmmm, nice. As far as I know, when using OpenOffice.org (or NeoOffice for that matter) then one needs to use the built-in "export as PDF" to get such clickable references. Telling OpenOffice.org to "print" to PDF will loose such clickable things (which makes sense, but apparently Pages knows a way to tell the "printer" about links).

How does Pages handle references to web sites? Most PDF readers will render anything starting with www clickable, but what if you link some text to a URL? Kind of like <a href="..">some text</a> -- is that clickable in PDF as well?

Create clickable references in Pages' PDFs
Authored by: wombat on Sat, Mar 29 2008 at 2:05PM PDT

Yes and no. iWork (including Pages) only supports URL's using the http or mailto schemes, so no file:// or relative references are permitted.
However, any URL link will show up in the PDF as a hyperlink, regardless of the text it's associated with.