How to Produce a Secure PDF Doc With Cloaked, Clickable Links

Some of the most well-known questions I see on net marketing and advertising forums involve creating PDF documents. Particularly, a lot of consumers making their 1st eBook want to do so in PDF format but are a small in the dark about how it all works.

How do I turn a document into PDF format?

How do I make clickable links?

How do I cloak the links so you can click on words like `Click Here' instead of having to display the full url of a website?

How do I secure my PDF document so it can't be copy and pasted?

Here's a short, tutorial that you might discover valuable:

• Go to openoffice.org and download a totally free copy of this wordprocessing software - it's rather comparable to Word!


• Once you've downloaded and installed on your pc, open up a new page


• Open a blank page in Open Office


• Alternatively, if you have already typed your content in, say, Word, then copy and paste it to a blank page

N.B. You might possibly get that the formatting is rearranged from Word to Open Office, so you will almost certainly have to invest a few moments sorting out your formatting. Yet, now that you've got Open Office on your laptop or computer, you will be able to start future projects quickly in Open Office.

• To change text into links merely highlight the words


• Then click on the hyperlink icon in the best tool bar


• You will then see a pop-up box which you have to have to total


• Insert the url that you wish to link to in the Target box


• Set the frame as _blank in the drop down Frame box - this indicates that when a person clicks on your link they will still be able to access your PDF underneath, they will not close it when they close the webpage that you have just directed the reader to.


• If the words don't already appear (oftentimes they are there automatically) then kind in the words that you wish the reader to see in the Text box e.g. Click Here


• You may perhaps also wish to contain an image which, when clicked, leads to a web page. Basically click on the image and follow the steps above from clicking on the hyperlink icon - you won't want to fill out the Text box.

As soon as you have created all your links, you will want to convert your document into PDF format.

• Go to your leading tool bar and click on File to get a drop down menu, choose Export as PDF


• You will now have one more box pop up, click on the Security tab and check the restrict permissions box. Opt for your restrictions


• Then click on the set permission password box


• Insert your password, confirm it, click OK


• Click the Export button and you will see a pop up with all your files and directories on your laptop or computer. Decide on where you want to save your PDF file on your computer from the dropdown menu, name it in the File Name box, click Save


• Go to where you have saved your PDF to view it

Check out your new PDF file to see if every thing is how it ought to be. You can at all times make amendments by opening the original Open Office document and then developing your PDF once more. If you right click on your PDF document or attempt to choose any text to copy and paste, you will see that this can not be performed.