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Hi, I am creating an ebook with a large number of embedded URL links. They
point to additional information or to affiliate product links. When done I'll create a PDF and publish it. OK, that's fine. But.... I want to be able to do print copies the book and I need to be able to show the full text of the link (instead of assigning it to a text phrase). So I'd like to be able to hide the full links when I create the PDF and then have them display where ever I chose to when printing a hard copy. I thought of using footnotes for the full links which will certainly work, but I'd like something more graceful. Thanks Rich |
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See if this suits your purpose: Turn on the option to print hidden text.
W'07: Word Options, Display Previous: Tools, Options, View -- TedMi "Redleg" wrote: Hi, I am creating an ebook with a large number of embedded URL links. They point to additional information or to affiliate product links. When done I'll create a PDF and publish it. OK, that's fine. But.... I want to be able to do print copies the book and I need to be able to show the full text of the link (instead of assigning it to a text phrase). So I'd like to be able to hide the full links when I create the PDF and then have them display where ever I chose to when printing a hard copy. I thought of using footnotes for the full links which will certainly work, but I'd like something more graceful. Thanks Rich |
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Sorry, for previous versions that should be Tools, Options, Print. But you
should also turn display of hidden text, so you can see how the text flows. -- TedMi "tedmi" wrote: See if this suits your purpose: Turn on the option to print hidden text. W'07: Word Options, Display Previous: Tools, Options, View -- |
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"tedmi" wrote: Sorry, for previous versions that should be Tools, Options, Print. But you should also turn display of hidden text, so you can see how the text flows. -- TedMi "tedmi" wrote: See if this suits your purpose: Turn on the option to print hidden text. W'07: Word Options, Display Previous: Tools, Options, View -- Yes, that is the logical thought. However when you select print hidden text it prints ALL hidden text. For instance it will print the field information for a ToC entry. So, I'm hoping there is another way. Thanks for looking though! |
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I tried a quick test and this seems to work. You may to experiment with it
some more. 1. Create a new character style, based on Hyperlink, with the font attribute set to hidden. Let's say you name it Hidelink 2. When creating your hyperlink, put the actual URL address in the text field, following the display text, for example: Click this link www.somedomain.com/somepage/ 3. After inserting your link, apply the hidelink style to the text from the blank in front of up to . 4. When ready to print hard copy, turn on VIEWING of hidden text. 5. Run a replace command, replacing format Hidelink with format Hyperlink. 6. Create your PDF. 7. To re-hide the links, reverse the replacement and uncheck viewing of hidden text. -- TedMi "Redleg" wrote: Hi, I am creating an ebook with a large number of embedded URL links. They point to additional information or to affiliate product links. When done I'll create a PDF and publish it. OK, that's fine. But.... I want to be able to do print copies the book and I need to be able to show the full text of the link (instead of assigning it to a text phrase). So I'd like to be able to hide the full links when I create the PDF and then have them display where ever I chose to when printing a hard copy. I thought of using footnotes for the full links which will certainly work, but I'd like something more graceful. Thanks Rich |
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Hummmm, sounds interesting. I'll try that and see how it works.
Thank you! "tedmi" wrote: I tried a quick test and this seems to work. You may to experiment with it some more. 1. Create a new character style, based on Hyperlink, with the font attribute set to hidden. Let's say you name it Hidelink 2. When creating your hyperlink, put the actual URL address in the text field, following the display text, for example: Click this link www.somedomain.com/somepage/ 3. After inserting your link, apply the hidelink style to the text from the blank in front of up to . 4. When ready to print hard copy, turn on VIEWING of hidden text. 5. Run a replace command, replacing format Hidelink with format Hyperlink. 6. Create your PDF. 7. To re-hide the links, reverse the replacement and uncheck viewing of hidden text. -- TedMi "Redleg" wrote: Hi, I am creating an ebook with a large number of embedded URL links. They point to additional information or to affiliate product links. When done I'll create a PDF and publish it. OK, that's fine. But.... I want to be able to do print copies the book and I need to be able to show the full text of the link (instead of assigning it to a text phrase). So I'd like to be able to hide the full links when I create the PDF and then have them display where ever I chose to when printing a hard copy. I thought of using footnotes for the full links which will certainly work, but I'd like something more graceful. Thanks Rich |
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Correction to my previously-described method:
You need to define TWO character styles, both based on Hyperlink. Let's call them Showlink and Hidelink. The former is unchanged from Hyperlink; the only change in the latter is to add Format, Font, Hidden. To show/hide the full URL's, replace Hidelink with Showlink or vice-versa. What I gave you before would subsequently hide the alpha text of the hyperlink, which I assume you always want to show. -- TedMi "Redleg" wrote: Hummmm, sounds interesting. I'll try that and see how it works. Thank you! |
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