Clickable URLs in PDF output created by Inkscape/SVG

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I guess the title pretty much describes the problem.

I'm using Inkscape to write a SVG document, and convert it to PDF to share on the web (keeping SVG as original file is safer)
I have many URLs in this document. I know internal links (clickable and not necessarily showing the whole URL on screen) don't mean a lot in SVG and Bitmap images (which are usually supposed as final output document), but they are good in PDF.

Editing output PDF file and adding links is very hard, because is PDF format is complicated and nasty (unless there is a easy to use editor program).
How can add such links the easy way (preferably in Inkscape/SVG)

Best Answer

This functionality has been implemented in Inkscape 1.0:

  • right-click on object
  • select "Create link"
  • enter target address under "Href"
  • store as PDF using "Save a copy..."
  • (I also restricted the output to PDF 1.4)

My system: Linux Mint 19.3, Inkscape 1.0+r73+1.

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