topic Re: Hyperlink in Documentation

Hyperlink

Steve Jepson — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:04:43 GMT

In ADT I can Hyperlink (Ctrl-K) any thing in my drawing to any file or web site. I use this for things like the Key Plan. When I click on a certain area of the Key Plan it will open the drawing for that area of the building...you get the idea and can see the potential I 'm sure.

Now that you can copy and paste Linked Objects (OLE) into PlotMaker, is there going to be a way to do something like Hyperlinking in ArchiCAD?

What I really want is to get my .pdf's into PlatMaker and Hyperlink them there. The new Acrobat 6.0 Pro can handle layers now. If ArchiCAD and PlotMaker could import .pdf's and handle Hyperlinking, it could generate a devistating blow to the competition.

Are there other methods in ArchiCAD to do something similar to what I described above?

Re: Hyperlink

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:07:36 GMT

When you publish/print to PDF from PM, all section and detail markers become hyperlinks (well, bookmarks) to the appropriate part of the PDF document. That's as close as it gets at the moment AFAIK.

Karl

Re: Hyperlink

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:39:54 GMT

Karl,
Is this When Publishing/Printing from PM9 only? I opened up a few PDF created from PM3.1 and did not see the "bookmarking".

Jay

Re: Hyperlink

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:32:36 GMT

Hey Jay,

Nope - works in PM 3.1 too. It was introduced in 8.0 or 8.1, can't recall which. (The section markers have to be set up to use PM autotext for numbering so that PM fills in the numbers and "knows" that the markers are linked to the sections/details.)

In Acrobat, the hand should turn into a finger over the section/detail marker.

??

Karl

Re: Hyperlink

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:02:00 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I am not getting this option. I tried to do a "screen Shot" showing that the "hand" remained a "hand" when hovering over a section marker. But the hand does not "Copy" in a print Screen.

And Yes the section markers have PM autotext.

Re: Hyperlink

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 05:38:09 GMT

Weird.

This feature is Windows only by the way: from the 8.1 help file:

"Hyperlinks in PDF Documents (WIN only)
When you save a PlotMaker file in a Windows-based PDF format using the built-in PDF Amyuni printer driver, the detail/section markers, as well as Layout names, will appear as hyperlinks. Clicking on the marker will switch you to the detail's respective layout."

I just made a quick test, using the Section Marker_NCS (in case that is part of the issue), and generated a PDF of a plan and section view, attached. You can click on the section marker and jump to the section page.

Karl

Re: Hyperlink

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:23:12 GMT

I noticed there is a check box in the Amyuni printing preferences in the advanced options tab for "Automatic conversion to hyperlinks".

Re: Hyperlink

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:03:46 GMT

Mike wrote:
I noticed there is a check box in the Amyuni printing preferences in the advanced options tab for "Automatic conversion to hyperlinks".

Thanks, Mike. I had seen that too, and tested with it checked and unchecked, and it had no effect on linking the markers. (I couldn't remember if it had to be checked or not.)

With it checked, though, it will recognize text strings that look like hyperlinks and convert them.

Karl

Re: Hyperlink

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:20:45 GMT

Still working in AC8.1 & PM3.1 on Existing Projects.

After installing AC9, I had to Reinstall Amyuni PDF driver, as per Karl's help.

I have one lbk that has the Hyperlink working, but another file (both created in AC8.1 and printed in PM3.1) that does not work. Both have the use on PM Autotext in Sections/Details.

????

Jay

Re: Hyperlink

Greg Kmethy — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:37:40 GMT

Karl wrote:
When you publish/print to PDF from PM, all section and detail markers become hyperlinks (well, bookmarks) to the appropriate part of the PDF document. That's as close as it gets at the moment AFAIK.

Karl

It works only if you 'print' to PDF converter or publish with printing to PDF converter. In ArchiCAD 9, when you publish with option 'save as PDF', the function does not work.

Greg

Re: Hyperlink

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:34:43 GMT

Did this feature disappear in version 10? It was always a mystery to me how it worked in the first place. I can't find any documentation on it.

Re: Hyperlink

JaredBanks — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:28:45 GMT

This feature is still alive, well, and duel platform in 2012 (looks like it was added to Macs some years ago).

It came up in a post I wrote for the BIM Engine Blog...

http://blog.graphisoftus.com/events/learn-archicad-meet-other-users-find-jobs-its-time-you-went-to-user-group-meetings

Thanks Karl for pointing this out to me!