Inserting a Hyperlink

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By the way - for those who wish to use the downoaded, offline version (not prezi desktop) the problem is even bigger. I still have found no reliable way to make working hyperlinks to files - I have a word document with hyperlinked pictures that are linked to audio samples (stored on my hard disk) to be played when clicking the picture. The pdf works fine when used by itself. It obviously doesn't work when put in an online prezi (it cannot find the wav /mp3 files because the path in the url doesn't mean a thing when running the presentation online), unfortunately it doesn't work either when I download the prezi. So please make the hyperlinks feature available, and make hyperlinks work also when pointing to offline, client hard disk side contents (you cannot expect a teacher to put everything online - and apart from that downloadable prezis are meant to work offline, aren't they?). Many thanks.

i agree completely and we all hope that they can fix this limitation because I'm sure there are many users with this important issue, that wil make prezi more powerfull...many thanks, plz notice us

Hyper-Links seem like an easy thing to do...the sooner the better. My Prezis need to be linked to the world. Thanks

Probably one of the most necessary things in a presentation... it's like releasing a phone w/o the call feature...oh wait...

All I asked for is opening a PDF file on the local hard drive via a downloaded prezi.
Just one thing is needed: support to "file://" hyperlinks (instead of just "http://" hyperlinks). Not so complicate, nor exotic... But still unavailable after years!!!!

All the workarounds that were discovered in the last two-three years are muddled and intricate and require huge amounts of extra work. Some of them, relying on Flash buttons, stopped working as soon as the fscommand ("exec","xyz.bat") syntax was limited by Adobe to "projectors" and banned from swf.

Now, the only viable solution involving flash swf buttons that open the local file, implies an actionscript based on getURL. Contrary to the execution of a .bat file previously granted by fscommand("exec"), that was capable to open any file or program, getURL invokes the default browser to open a specific file.
So more configuration is needed at browser level, to ensure that the browser - when opening that file - uses the specific program you need, and still there is the browser window popping up every time...

Such a short-sighted limitation in a luminous concept like Prezi is really really inexplicable.

We are really sorry Cesare. most of our tools have to work across platforms (win, mac, iOS, and the rest soon) so its not trivial. and please note that we don't officially support actionscript in swf files, most don't work in prezi.

i would just upload the PDF to dropbox, and use that https link
this way your viewers even on mobile could open it.
but maybe this doesn't help you

best wishes,
adam

Hi Adam, I am honored to talk with one of the Founders (looks a little mythological, doesn't it)? :-D
Prezi is a revolutionary, outstanding, innovative piece of software, and no offense was meant in my overstated fake indignation.
I am aware of cross-platform issues, but... giving the end user the reponsibility of concocting the proper URI, why in the world could a "file://"-based hyperlink be more difficult to implement than an "http://"-based hyperlink?

what I was trying to do (and at the end it works) is here, I use the downloaded version:

http://prezi.com/begeinxrwslk/audiosf...

You are very right about the strategy to insert the PDF as an element in Prezi. My "critical" Prezi is stuffed with PDFs and pictures. Some of the PDF are themselves collections of links to movies, sounds that I keep on my laptop... too many to upload in a single prezi. I will refer to those pdf's as "hub pdf's"

Once inserted into the Prezi, unfortunately, for one reason or another the "local" URI's or "local" URL's inside the PDF's cease to operate (and you will find tons of posts about that kind of issue). Hence my need to keep the PDF outside Prezi itself.

So one should finding a way to keep the "hub PDF's" outside Prezi (so their internal links to local resources will work), but be able to call them from inside prezi at the right moment.

Here the SWF buttons may overcome the limit of inoperative local URI/URL's (obviously, if the link from the PDF embedded in prezi to a local file don't work, also the link that - from prezi - should call the local "hub PDF" won't work either).

In any case now I'm tranquil, and maybe even wiser :-), after such a long struggle with the world. If I had operating links to local files in prezi, I would have linked my tens of local wave files and movies to invisible frames above pictures loaded in prezi. But I had to make the hub pdf's. If the urls/uris within hub pdf's could work in Prezi, I would have loaded them in Prezi. But I had to keep the pdf's outside. And to find a way to call them when needed.

Best regards,
Cesare