[Hidden-tech] Word to PDF preserving TOC links

[Ron Miller]

If you own a full copy of Acrobat, it should work as Will requests 
without buying any extensions.

Ron



Chas Emerick wrote:
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> Will,
> 
> I'll assume for a moment that you are on Windows.  BCL's EasyPDF printer 
> driver should work perfectly for you, and the price is right:
> 
> http://www.pdfonline.com/easypdf/index.htm
> 
> It can convert MS Word styles into PDF bookmarks.  I know that it also 
> has hyperlink export support.  However, I'm on OS X at the moment, so I 
> can't verify whether it will preserve those internal links (as opposed 
> to only preserving "outgoing" web hyperlinks).
> 
> Be well,
> 
> Chas Emerick
> Founder, Snowtide Informatics Systems
> Enterprise-class PDF content extraction
> 
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> 
> On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Will Loving wrote:
> 
>>    ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must be counted to post .
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>>
>> I'm interested to see if anyone knows the answer to this problem:
>>
>> I've just finished a 170-page User Guide for my StudioSchool Pro software
>> for community music and arts schools. In MS Word, if you look at the 
>> Table
>> of Contents and click on a page number, Word jumps to that page. I would
>> like to have the PDF version of the User Guide do the same thing, WITHOUT
>> having to manually apply the links to each line of TOC in the PDF file.
>>
>> Is there a way in the PDF creation process - using just Acrobat or in
>> combination with some other tool - to preserve those internal links? I 
>> want
>> to be able to revise the Word doc and create an updated PDF quickly 
>> from it
>> rather than have to do a lot of manual editing in the PDF.
>>
>> On a similar note, I would love to able to place a "Table of Contents"
>> button in the Header of the Word doc that links to the TOC, and then have
>> that link retained in the PDF?
>>
>> Any Acrobat/PDF experts out there?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Will
>>
>> Will Loving, President
>> Dedication Technologies, Inc.
>>
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