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PDFs - Hyperlink embedding from TBC

  • 1.  PDFs - Hyperlink embedding from TBC

    Posted 10-03-2020 09:48
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    Is there any way to embed hyperlinks in PDFS within TBC? 

     

    I feel like this would be a great way to create quick references to data. Especially when viewing on mobile devices in the field.

     

    Internal links to other pdf pages would be hugely helpful as well; bookmarks, links to detail pages.

     

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  • 2.  Re: PDFs - Hyperlink embedding

    Posted 10-05-2020 07:16

    I use Bluebeam for this all the time.  Hyperlinks from the site plan or grading sheet to the detail sheets, I have found, are very helpful.



  • 3.  Re: PDFs - Hyperlink embedding from TBC

    Posted 10-05-2020 07:19

    Agreed. Sorry I might directly from TBC. I would love to have templates set up with predefined hyperlinks. 



  • 4.  Re: PDFs - Hyperlink embedding from TBC

    Posted 10-07-2020 14:40

    Do you mean that once you have imported a Georeferenced PDF Sheet, that you want to add some text onto the drawing and associate that text with the PDF Page and Target Sheet so that you can click on the Text and Hyperlink to a Georeferenced location for the linked Sheet in the Text? Is this so you can move around between sheets easier in Plan View - Are you wanting that to Turn the Target Sheet on automatically (which means changing the View Filter), and when you add the attributes to the text you want to be able to add a Geo Location and or a Sheet and know where its centroid is or something like that - so by clicking the text, you change the View Filter and pan at current zoom factor or Zoom to extents of the target sheet - and display that sheets information.

     

    Is that kind of what you are asking for here?

     

    Or are you asking for the ability to set those up in the Sheet Set so that you can embed those in PDF outputs to make navigation through a PDF Sheet Set created by TBC easier for the target user of the PDF?

     

    Seems like maybe the latter is what you are asking for - is that correct?

     

    Alan 



  • 5.  Re: PDFs - Hyperlink embedding from TBC

    Posted 10-07-2020 15:20

    My initial request was for the latter but your first concept sounds very useful too. 

     

    Check this out: Dropbox - TBC - Hyperlinking Comments 20201007.mp4 - Simplify your life 



  • 6.  Re: PDFs - Hyperlink embedding from TBC

    Posted 10-07-2020 16:13

    Your not one to ask for anything though are you buddy!

     

    Alan



  • 7.  Re: PDFs - Hyperlink embedding from TBC

    Posted 10-15-2020 17:58

     every now and then



  • 8.  RE: Re: PDFs - Hyperlink embedding from TBC

    Posted 01-06-2023 09:37
    Edited by Francisco Guerrero 01-06-2023 09:37
    I have started using links in my plans for maybe the last two years.  I have added links the index sheets to jump to the beginning of each type of work.  I have used hyperlink to files and to DXF maps i have set up in Google maps.  The way i see it,  it would be faster to do it in Whichever plan viewer one uses than inside TBC.  This is done in HCSS Plans

    here are some screen shots of my links.  Just dots that represent the link

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    Francisco Guerrero
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