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PDF Asset Limitations

  • January 23, 2025
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Hi! I am a fairly new user, but have run into a few limitations that negatively impact our learners. I am wondering if there is a potential workaround to either of these issues:

  1. In the web browser, to navigate a PDF asset learners must *click* from page to page. Is scrolling eve an option instead? This is more natural navigation.
  2. Also in the web browser and in PDF assets, hyperlinks are deactivated. Learners are only able to access links if they first download the PDF. (We don’t want to encourage downloading as our documents are often updates, and we always want our learners coming to the browser version of the LMS to access the most up to date training.)

Is there a setting somewhere that could help me with either of these issues? Thank you!!!!

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lrnlab
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  • lrnlab
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  • January 26, 2025

I believe these would be settings you need to update/enable in your PDF document. If you used the Slide Converter tool to load your PDF document, this could also be the cause for the change. If you added it as  a file, check your PDF authoring tool to see if you have any other settings for navigation. You Riley need to code the links in a different way as well to make sure they remain clickable once loaded in the LMS. 

Alan
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  • Alan
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  • January 28, 2025

I believe these would be settings you need to update/enable in your PDF document. If you used the Slide Converter tool to load your PDF document, this could also be the cause for the change. If you added it as  a file, check your PDF authoring tool to see if you have any other settings for navigation. You Riley need to code the links in a different way as well to make sure they remain clickable once loaded in the LMS. 

Hi ​@lrnlab - do you have any further insight into how PDFs should be configured for links to work inside Docebo?  My understanding was that no workaround existed for this problem. 

Alan Clifford
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  • January 28, 2025

​@Alan I’m no expert...I was merely pointing out that when using something like the Slide Converter, the links wont work but when uploading a file, they should work. A PDF created from another source (save as PDF, for example) will not always activate the links. You need a proper PDF creation tool to make sure they remain as links when transformed to PDF or recreate the links using the PDF tool.

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  • January 28, 2025

Thanks, ​@lrnlab.  I misunderstood - I thought you meant there was a way to get links to work in the slide converter. I don’t experience any problems with the file download method. 

​@Ecoleman - so the answer to your question is that no solution exists for making links inside PDFs work using the Slide Converter. The only options would be to a) upload the PDF as a file for learners to download; or b) recreate the PDF as a different type of object (eg HTML or wrapped as a SCORM). 

Alan 

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  • January 28, 2025

Correct.

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I could be wrong, given I am currently working towards learning more about it, but using a SCORM creator, such as Articulate, would allow you to create slides like Slide Converter but the links would actually work. You can even control the way it displays, such as scrolling. 

That said, how easy it might be to create these from PDFs is where I am uncertain, but when I get access to Articulate I can better speak on it.

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