Isobel asks about creating intra-document hyperlinks in a PDF exported from OmniGraffle Pro. Here's how I would do it.
Links to online documents
- Write your text containing the hyperlink. I include the hyperlink within the main text, but use the Font palette to underline and colour it to make it stand out:
- I then create a new borderless object to sit over the text that I want to turn into a hyperlink. The advantage of doing it this way it that you can create a clickable area that is significantly bigger than would be created if you put the text inside its own object; this makes it easier for the reader to active the hyperlink:
- With the clickable object selected, go to the Actions palette and set the Browse Tool to open a URL:
- When you're done editing, save the document to PDF:
- Opening the PDF in Preview, the Browse Tool should reveal a clickable hyperlink:
Links to other pages in the same document
- This time in the Actions pane, instead of Opens a URL, choose Jumps Elsewhere. Now you have to choose both the type of jump, and the target canvas. To create a link to a particular page (canvas in Omnigraffle-speak) we want to choose Switch to a Specific Canvas:
- Select the target canvas/ page:
- This will cause the hyperlink to jump to another page, but not focus on any part of it. If you wanted to be more specific (such as jumping to a particular heading on another page), choose Center on a Point and use the cross-hair to identify the exact target:
Incidentally, I use Switch to Previous/ Next Canvas to create "Back" and "Forward" buttons to aid online reading of exported PDFs.
Thank you, this is really great.
You're very welcome. Glad it was useful.
Hi Bruce, I've been scouring the internet for how to make tooltips appear in omnigraffle that will be preserved when exported to pdf. I'm writing a tech tree and I have a map of connections, I am trying to figure out how to make a new shape to appear and be populated with data of that technology onmouseover or onpress. (Guessing through some automator script but I can't figure out how to do it.) Any ideas? Thanks for you help, I really appreciate it.
Mark, that's something I've requested too—I published a mock-up here in relation to HTML export. After I wrote to Omni in 2005 I'm pretty sure I received a response saying it had already been requested and was being considered. After the release of OmniGraffle 5 I contacted them again in Jan 2008 to point out it's ongoing omission, but received only an automated response.
I know of no hacks to make title elements/ tooltips appear in OmniGraffle exports, sorry. Acrobat can do it of course.