#Hivemind, if you are preparing a manuscript and can make normal hyperlinks where the URL is hidden but you can click on some colored text in order to go to a destination, do you use this feature of PDFs?

Pros: takes up less space since the URL isn't shown as text.
Cons: if a paper is printed, readers only have the text of your link (not the URL) to find the resource.

(In my case, I'm imagining e.g. naming a social media site or other web-based service and providing a link to it--they're almost always identifiable w/o the URL)

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@_dmh if the PDF is handled by the publisher in any way (e.g. compiling papers into a proceedings PDF), there is a good chance that these embedded links will get lost. In that case any line-broken URL will also have a faulty clickable link (because only the part before the linebreak is recognised) but at least those can be copy-pasted together.

@MarcSchulder @_dmh

What about a QR-code to transfer links from paper to a phone?

@GustavinoBevilacqua @_dmh that would likely use more space than writing out the URL, so only suitable for very unwieldy URLs. Good option for posters though.
@MarcSchulder
I still find it weird how this technology first pushed 15 years ago is having a resurgence. I'm a weirdo who would rather type in a URL than scan a QR code, unless, as Marc says, it's particularly unwieldy
@GustavinoBevilacqua