Anonymous
My feedback
2 results found
-
11 votes
Thanks for reporting the issue of backlinking not working for Endnotes with WR Composers.
We’re going to review this shortly.—
Adobe InDesign teamAn error occurred while saving the comment -
2 votesAnonymous
shared this idea
·
I use endnotes in many publications, and have never succeeded in getting backlinking (linking from endnote to reference in text) to work. Clients request it regularly, and I have to tell them it's something InDesign simply cannot do.
My endnotes are in an unmodified paragraph style, with no character style or character formatting or overrides of any kind.
I created a PDF from Uwe's InDesign file using my own joboptions, and that PDF has backlinking. But PDFs I create from my own files do not. This tells me my joboptions are not the issue.
I copied a paragraph from Uwe's InDesign file, with its accompanying note, into my file and made a PDF. Backlinking worked for his text, but not for my existing text. This tells me the problem is somewhere in my text formatting.
One aspect at a time, I changed Uwe's paragraph style to match mine, creating a PDF each time, figuring the place where it broke would tell me which aspect of my own stylesheets is breaking backlinking.
Long story short: having the endnotes using the WORLD-READY PARAGRAPH COMPOSER breaks backlinking. As soon as my endnotes were formatted using the regular Adobe Paragraph Composer, bam, the backlinks function perfectly.
I could not be more satisfied yet angry.