How to enter email hyperlink in InD for PDF export

[JLoitz]

Hello all,

I'm working on a document in InDesign to be exported as a PDF that includes a hyperlink to an email address. Adobe InDesign Help says to enter the email hyperlink by adding the protocol mailto:// to the e-mail address in the Hyperlink destination dialog box.

Clicking on the hyperlink in the completed PDF launches the e-mail application and opens a new message. BUT the specified address includes the two slashes //. Looks like this, //m...@whatever.com

Doesn't this mess up the e-mail address?
Are the // necessary, and if so how or where are they entered correctly?

Many thanks,
Joan

[Dan Crescent]

Just add mailto:te...@here.com to your InDesign hyperlink with no slashes.

[Kenneth Brody]

The "//" is used it items that include a host name and filename, to specify that this part is the hostname, such as

<http://hostname/path/to/file>
ftp://hostname/path/to/file

Links that do not include a hostname and filename do not include the "//"

mailto:user...@whatever.foo
about:mozilla
javascript:dosomething()