Knowledge Base/3.0 Enhance your reader and publication/3.3 AutoLinking

3.3.2 Autolink - Websites/Emails

Nathan Virtue
posted this on July 01, 2011 11:29 am

This job is all ready for you to use!  Whether it be during your initial upload of your PDF, or if you want to apply it to an already published edition.

It will convert all text/font that is of a standard website or email format into an interactive hyperlink.  This job will recognize most standard formats of website and email addresses.  Let us know if you use any that aren't being recognized.  

NOTE: This tool will not recognize any image based text and you should always use embedded fonts in your PDFs when showing website/email addresses.

On Upload

Choose your Title/Folder and click upload Issue.

In the center of the options screen are the Auto Link jobs available where you can choose the standard Websites/Emails autolink checkbox OR any other custom autolink jobs you have already created (see image below)

Autolink - Select Website and Emails on Upload

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Post Upload

If you already have an issue uploaded, you can still run the Website and Email Job. 

  • While in your manage Folders/Issues screen click on your Issue thumbnail to bring up the Issue settings & option popup
  • Click on the "new auto-link" button in the Enhance tab

Issue_Settings_and_Options_-_New_Autolink_Job.png

 

One you are at the Create an Auto-link Job screen, do the following:

  • Select Websites/Emails as your "Job Type"
  • Give the job a name of your choice OR just use the default Websites and Emails label
  • Check the box for "Automatically Enable All Links Found" option if you would like all links created to be active from the start. 
  • If you don't check this "Automatically Enable All Links Found" option(maybe you want to review all the links found before you make them active), you will need to go to the manage auto-link jobs page to select the job, view the tasks and links make them active.
  • Click Create Job and your auto-link job will be queued and run, generally only taking a few seconds to complete

Website_and_Email_Autolink_Job_Creation.png