: In Gimp, how can I add a link to a body of text. I have a text field (created using the Text tool), and I'm trying to add a link to the body of the text. This document will primarily

@Karen819

You can't, GIMP's text layers and text tool do not support adding links to text at this point. You can style text to look like some commonly recognized representation of a link - e.g. blue and underlined - but there won't be any special functionality.

Also, GIMP is not really meant to be used as a PDF creator or editor application. Only the very recent development versions have brought some improvements to PDF export, but this is still far from what other tools offer.

You are better off to use applications more specialized to work with documents rather than individual images - Scribus and LibreOffice are two examples of Free Software tools which can be used to create PDF documents from scratch (you didn't specify whether you want to edit an existing PDF file, please clarify this in your question). Actually, many current word processors should preserve links if they offer to export to PDF.

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@Nimeshi706

I have not found a way to save a GIMP image as PDF without changing all text to an image. In PDFs that spoils hyperlinks and the editability of the texts.

Hyperlinks can be added to PDF in PDF editors such as Adobe Acrobat. There an area can be selected and marked to be a hyperlink activation button. That area can contain anything.

Acrobat is a high cost program. There are plenty of more affordable programs that can open a PDF, allow adding comments and hyperlinks and ave the result as new PDF. Unfortunately freeware has limitations just in this. For example Adobe reader adds comments, but not working web links. Some other add web links only to text, some even want the link to be visible in its full text form.

I have not tested all PDF editing freeware, so my knowledge is very limited. But I have found some affordable PDF editors with usable hyperlink capablity: Serif PagePlus, Foxit Fantom.

Usable means any "any area can be marked to be a hyperlink button - with or without visible hyperlink symbols".

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