Have you ever downloaded a PDF and noticed that the links are clickable? “How on earth did they do that?!” you may have said to yourself (if it was out loud, it’s ok. I won’t tell anyone.) Well, it’s super easy, and you don’t even need a fancy PDF program like Adobe Acrobat. You can add hyperlinks right in Canva!
The first thing you need to know is that this only works for PDFs. It doesn’t work for JPGs or PNGs. You can not make a clickable link in an image like that. If you’ve seen a picture on FaceBook and clicked it and it went directly to a website, it was probably an ad that was set up that way, it wasn’t the image itself.
Adding clickable links to PDFs has so many useful applications. A few of my personal favorites are:
- Linking to your website or other resources in the PDF downloads that you give to your newsletter subscribers and social media fans
- Adding links to your website and social media accounts on your resume
- Linking to more information in your client contracts
- Including a purchase link at the end of your portfolio
And it only takes a few seconds! Watch how to do it here:
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I haven’t tried it, but if you make the URL that you link to start with “mailto:” so that it is like “mailto:info@bizbff.com” then I think it will make the user’s email program open up with that address in the to line.
That normally works! (In most programs) But it doesn’t in Canva yet. (I’ve tried, and then checked their help articles to be sure I wasn’t missing something. But they say that it doesn’t have the capability to do mailto: links yet.)