Person T has had Person A design a one-page flyer and sent it to Person J... as a single image. Person T is two hours ahead, time-zone wise, and Person A is roughly 12 hours behind.
Person J also wishes to email out the flyer with hyperlinks on each of two names in the image.
Sent as a bare image, she will not fly.
Embedding the image in a PDF would allow only the entire image to possess a single hyperlink.
So... crank up GIMP, open image, select the Move tool, drag Guides from each Ruler to section up the image. Each Guide changes nothing, however its presence allows the Rectangle Select tool to be very precise and consistent.
Now File ⇒ Save the work-file in case you wish to adjust things for another round. Here, I have applied the Cubist tool from the Filters to most of the content, so the idea is conveyed without revealing details of said content.
The next step is to Rectangle Select the top area (in the screenshot above, the left-name area has been Rectangle Selected), then Copy it (Ctrl+C is the keyboard shortcut), then File ⇒ Create ⇒ From Clipboard (Ctrl+Shift+V is the shortcut) to make the copy into a new image, export that image (File ⇒ Export) as a PNG (lossless compression), repeat for the bottom area, then in the central section, for the left, left-name, centre, right-name, right areas.
Open LibreOffice Writer, Insert ⇒ Image the top-area image, right-click, choose Properties, under the Type tab make it “As character” under the Crop tab set the Scale so it will all fit nicely (58% in this case, which can be tweaked later to suit), OK. Click to the right of the image, press Shift+Enter to insert a NewLine (rather than a paragraph).
Now Insert ⇒ Image the centre left area, then left-name, centre, right-name, right. With the name areas (in this case) I also chose the Hyperlink tab within the Properties dialogue, and pasted the link into the URL field, making that image section click-able. When done, Shift+Enter to make a place for the bottom area.
Finally, Insert ⇒ Image the bottom-area image (and if it does not all butt up squarely, check (Format ⇒ Paragraph) that the Line Spacing for the document’s sole paragraph is set to Single). Now save (for the sake of posterior) and click the “Export as PDF” button.
Person J also wishes to email out the flyer with hyperlinks on each of two names in the image.
Sent as a bare image, she will not fly.
Embedding the image in a PDF would allow only the entire image to possess a single hyperlink.
So... crank up GIMP, open image, select the Move tool, drag Guides from each Ruler to section up the image. Each Guide changes nothing, however its presence allows the Rectangle Select tool to be very precise and consistent.
The next step is to Rectangle Select the top area (in the screenshot above, the left-name area has been Rectangle Selected), then Copy it (Ctrl+C is the keyboard shortcut), then File ⇒ Create ⇒ From Clipboard (Ctrl+Shift+V is the shortcut) to make the copy into a new image, export that image (File ⇒ Export) as a PNG (lossless compression), repeat for the bottom area, then in the central section, for the left, left-name, centre, right-name, right areas.
Open LibreOffice Writer, Insert ⇒ Image the top-area image, right-click, choose Properties, under the Type tab make it “As character” under the Crop tab set the Scale so it will all fit nicely (58% in this case, which can be tweaked later to suit), OK. Click to the right of the image, press Shift+Enter to insert a NewLine (rather than a paragraph).
Now Insert ⇒ Image the centre left area, then left-name, centre, right-name, right. With the name areas (in this case) I also chose the Hyperlink tab within the Properties dialogue, and pasted the link into the URL field, making that image section click-able. When done, Shift+Enter to make a place for the bottom area.
Finally, Insert ⇒ Image the bottom-area image (and if it does not all butt up squarely, check (Format ⇒ Paragraph) that the Line Spacing for the document’s sole paragraph is set to Single). Now save (for the sake of posterior) and click the “Export as PDF” button.
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