Skip navigation

InDesign Scripting

Annabelle Viau Calculating status...

Currently Being Moderated

Create hyperlinks for all the URLs in the text... possible?

Aug 2, 2011 12:30 PM

Hello everyone,

I’m starting to learn how to do ePubs from the books I layout and I’ve come up with a very annoying issue. In the footnotes or bibliography, there are often urls in the text. I need to have them linked to the website they refer to in the ePub. I really wish there is some kind of automated way to do that, because if it’s not possible, I hardly see myself doing it manually for a whole book...

So, well, can any of you guys help me with that? I’m really bad at scripting so I have no idea if it’s possible, but... thanks anyways!

Annabelle

414 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: jeremiah-swanson, Aug 31, 2012 11:21 AM

Replies

Currently Being Moderated

1. [Jongware],

Aug 3, 2011 1:43 AM in reply to Annabelle Viau

Report

If you are using CS5 or CS5.5 (the latter is strongly recommended for all things EPub), "Convert URL to hyperlinks" is a menu command in the Hyperlink palette:

http://community.adobe.com/help/search.html?q=hyperlink&hl=en_US&lr=en _US&l=indesign_product_adobelr&site=indesign_cs5_all&self=1&filter=0

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

2. jeremiah-swanson,

Aug 30, 2012 1:01 PM in reply to [Jongware]

Report

Is there a simple way to do this through InDesign scripting (javascript)?

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

3. Kasyan Servetsky,

Aug 31, 2012 12:53 AM in reply to jeremiah-swanson

Report

Yes, it's possible to do using GREP search. I have a collection of scripts dealing with hyperlinks I gathered from forums, sites, etc.
If you're interested, write me to askoldich [at] yahoo [dot] com.
Check out also the Hyperlinks section on this page.

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

4. jeremiah-swanson,

Aug 31, 2012 11:21 AM in reply to Kasyan Servetsky

Report

Thanks for the information. I did a little research on using GREP and I've since whipped together a script that'll do what I need.

|
Mark as:

Forum guidelines

Answers + Points = Status

10 points awarded for Correct Answers
5 points awarded for Helpful Answers
10,000+ points
1,001-10,000 points
501-1,000 points
5-500 points

InDesign Scripting

Create hyperlinks for all the URLs in the text... possible?

Aug 2, 2011 12:30 PM

More Like This

Bookmarked By (0)

Answers + Points = Status