13 January, 2022

MacOs: internal links in PDF documents cannot open in a browser

For some reason I often have problems when trying to open urls from a PDF on MacOS. If you know the cure here, please let me know in the comments below. 

Don't know why, but so far I've tried to:

  • Use Acrobat Reader
  • Use Safari 
  • Use Chrome
  • Change security settings
  • Open the links from a browser
  • Download the PDF, and open from a PDF-reader (sometimes that's the cure, but alas only sometimes)
In some documents the links work. In other documents they don't. Somehow I suspect that the problem may be PDF's created on a Windows system. My most esteemed collegues have Windows computers, where the links seem to work fine.

About my MacOs:

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                    'c.          perthykjaerjensen@Pers-MBP.nalnet.cable
                 ,xNMM.          ---------------------------------------
               .OMMMMo           OS: macOS 12.0.1 21A559 x86_64
               OMMM0,            Host: MacBookPro16,2
     .;loddo:' loolloddol;.      Kernel: 21.1.0
   cKMMMMMMMMMMNWMMMMMMMMMM0:    Uptime: 12 days, 17 hours, 38 mins
 .KMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.    Packages: 87 (brew)
 XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.      Shell: zsh 5.8
;MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:       Resolution: 1440x900@2x
:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:       DE: Aqua
.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.      WM: Quartz Compositor
 kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.    WM Theme: Orange (Light)
 .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMk   Terminal: iTerm2
  .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMK.   Terminal Font: PTMono-Regular 15
    kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMd     CPU: Intel i5-1038NG7 (8) @ 2.00GHz
     ;KMMMMMMMWXXWMMMMMMMk.      GPU: Intel Iris Plus Graphics
       .cooc,.    .,coo:.        Memory: 10719MiB / 16384MiB


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