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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Actually that is not correct.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>When using a PDF as an “image”, no links are retained as they as annotations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The effect you see in your merged sample is because The viewing agent of your PDF is making the text google.au.com into a link automagically (because it looks like one).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The reason “Objective Website” is not a link is because it does not look like one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>See: <a href="http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#PDF">http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#PDF</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Specifically “PDF images are supported in PDF generator only. XEP is capable to embed an arbitrary page of a PDF document as a vector image. All related resources (fonts, images, color profiles) are transferred to the output file. Annotations (text notes, hyperlinks, etc) are dropped.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You cannot use PDFs as an image and retain annotations (like links). You would need to put those into the document that you are creating, not the background.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kevin Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>(650) 327-1000 Direct<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>(650) 328-8008 Fax<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>(925) 395-1772 Mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>skype:kbrown01<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:kevin@renderx.com">kevin@renderx.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:sales@renderx.com">sales@renderx.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.renderx.com/">http://www.renderx.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hugo Inacio<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 29, 2018 8:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> RenderX Community Support List <xep-support@renderx.com><br><b>Cc:</b> David Wilson <David.Wilson@objective.com>; Jim Fretwell <Jim.Fretwell@objective.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] placing pdf image on background causes the image to lose links<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I’m having an issue adding a pdf image with links as a background image. If the links are too close to each other, the second link loses the connection:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>FO file: background-file.fo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Background-image: background.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Output of file: output.pdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Is this a known issue?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Hugo<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>