[Hidden-tech] Word to PDF preserving TOC links

[Chas Emerick]

Indeed -- I had assumed Acrobat wasn't available since the question  
was posed....

- Chas


On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Ron Miller wrote:

> If you own a full copy of Acrobat, it should work as Will requests  
> without buying any extensions.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> Chas Emerick wrote:
>>   ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must be counted to  
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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
>> cemerick at snowtide.com
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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  
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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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