Hi everyone,
I’m very new to DEVONthink, so apologies if this is a basic question.
I’m trying to add clickable links inside PDF annotations. Specifically, I want to insert a link to another document so that I can jump to it directly.
What I’ve tried is copying an item link and pasting it into a PDF annotation. It initially appears as a clickable link while editing, but after I close the annotation, the hyperlink formatting disappears and I’m left with plain text.
Is this expected behaviour for PDF annotations, or am I doing something wrong? If this isn’t supported, what’s the recommended way to create this kind of cross-reference between PDFs?
Thanks in advance.
You use the Link annotation tool. This creates a hotspot on the page, essentially like an image map, where it’s an invisible location with a link to somewhere.
Click and drag to create the hotspot, then choose the URL option and enter an external URL, as needed.
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Thanks for the swift reply.
I’m not quite sure what you’re referring to. The way I try to do it now is to, for example, copy page link from PDF A and then try to paste it into an annotation in PDF B, so that I can cross-reference these. The link works when I first paste it into the annotation in PDF B, but once I close the note the hyperlink disappears. I’ve attached two screenshots to try and show the issue. The image with the blue hyperlink is the one that works, but it then turns into plain text like the other image.
Well, Note annotations are plain text, so what’s happening is logical.
I’m not quite sure what you’re referring to.
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OK, I understand. Thanks. So basically, it’s not possible to have an annotation that includes both text and link? When I try to do it through link annotation, it won’t let me add text.
One possibility is to add a text annotation first and then a link annotation above the text annotation.
