Weblink inside a Pdf

[Phlppe]

Hello there 
I planning to make a PDF document and would like to insert some weblink inside.
Is it possible to do this with Gimp?
Thanks

[Ofnuts]

No. And don't fool yourself about the PDF. Your PDF will just be an envelope whose only content is an image. If you want to generate a true PDF (where text remains text) use another app (LibreOffice, Scribus, Word...) to make documents (where images can come from Gimp, if necessary).

[Phlppe]

Ok thanks for the explanations.
Would you recommend Sribus or LibreOffice for a use of layers, similar to Gimp?

[rich2005]

Neither have layers, they work with pages. Neither similar to Gimp although LibreOffice Draw does have vector type drawing (lines boxes circles etc).

Scribus is for Desktop Publishing, sending to a printing company. It is frame based. Images / Text all go in their own frames on a page. Adding a hyperlink is possible but not straight forward.
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Adding_H...F_document (anyway not much use when printed )

LibreOffice much easier to use, Insert a hyperlink directly from a menu entry. Export as a PDF . Lots of PDF options. Probably the best option for online publishing rather than actual printing.

[Phlppe]

Ok, thank you very much. I'm gonna try LibreOffice

[RiverEnder]

(02-08-2022, 09:51 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: No. And don't fool yourself about the PDF. Your PDF will just be an envelope whose only content is an image. If you want to generate a true PDF (where text remains text) use another app (LibreOffice, Scribus, Word...) to make documents (where images can come from Gimp, if necessary).

That's not true, using gimp you can export as pdf, text boxes will remain as text and resize accordingly, as well as vector graphics. You can turn each top-most layer into each pages using folders

[rich2005]

(04-01-2025, 12:17 PM)RiverEnder Wrote:

(02-08-2022, 09:51 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: No. And don't fool yourself about the PDF. Your PDF will just be an envelope whose only content is an image. If you want to generate a true PDF (where text remains text) use another app (LibreOffice, Scribus, Word...) to make documents (where images can come from Gimp, if necessary).

That's not true, using gimp you can export as pdf, text boxes will remain as text and resize accordingly, as well as vector graphics. You can turn each top-most layer into each pages using folders

Gimp 3.0 is better than 2.8 but there is still a problem with font substitution. In the example
(1) The font Obitron is only available to Gimp - it is in the Gimp font folder.
(2) Open in a PDF viewer and some text formatting is lost. However Gimp has added the font names to the PDF file.
(3) Open in (say) LibreOffice for possible editing, formatting is lost and the "Gimp only" font Obitron is replaced by the system default font.  Gimp does not yet store the actual font in the PDF.

   

The advice is still the same, if you want the PDF as designed in Gimp, then flatten the Image before exporting Otherwise use an alternative such as Scribus or Inkscape.

[sallyanne]

What if you do an image map in gimp?