Automatic hyperlinks when typing certain keywords?

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5 total messages Started by Lisa_Gadaleta Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:34

#1979

Author: Lisa_Gadaleta
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:34

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I originally posted this yesterday in the InDesign forum but was recommended to post it here as well:

I have recently started working for a company that publishes a daily PDF newsletter about racehorses, which is emailed to our subscribers.

Unfortunately we are using WordPerfect to lay out the newsletter, which is quite quirky, archaic, and frustrating to work with. When I asked why we are not using InDesign, my boss said that WordPerfect allows the user to create a list of keywords that create automatic hyperlinks to pre-designated URLs (I believe they are called SpeedLinks in WP). Therefore, every time we mention (for example) "Horse's Name" a hyperlink is created to "www.horsesname.com" (or whatever website we pre-designated for that keyword). She said that as far as she knows, there is no way to do such a thing in InDesign.

Does anyone know if this is actually possible in InDesign, particularly in CS3 or 4, which I have not had the opportunity to use yet? If not, are there plug-ins available that would accomplish this? I'm desperate to get them to switch from WordPerfect so any guidance is appreciated

Lisa

Re: Automatic hyperlinks when typing certain keywords?

#1982

Author: Kasyan_Servetsky
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:25

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Hi Lisa,

I have a script for automatic creation of hyperlinks in my archive, it's for CS2, but it works for CS3, if placed into 'Version 4.0 Scripts' folder. You can use it as a starting point and remake it to your own needs. If you are interested, send me an e-mail and I'll send you the script.

askoldich@yahoo.com

Kasyan

Re: Automatic hyperlinks when typing certain keywords?

#1986

Author: Kasyan_Servetsky
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:07

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Check out this script: <http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1046584#>

It seems to me it's quite close to what you need.

Re: Automatic hyperlinks when typing certain keywords?

#1988

Author: Lisa_Gadaleta
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:35

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Thanks Kasyan! I'm not sure but I think that script is slightly different from what I need in that it is actually showing "http://www...." and ".com" within the text. Basically we just want certain keywords in our text to turn blue and be underlined and link to a specified URL, but not actually display the URL within the text. Does that make sense? lol I know it's slightly confusing.

Re: Automatic hyperlinks when typing certain keywords?

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Author: jongware
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:13

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How should the hyperlink be recognized as such? I don't think it can be done "while typing".

Seems to me you could create a list of keywords with their associated hyperlinks, and run a script afterwards -- it shouldn't be hard to script.

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