Re: Word 2000 to PDF problems Redux

["Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Here is what the Adobe site says about my problem:

"Acrobat PDFMaker can convert Word documents using either Acrobat PDFWriter 
or Acrobat Distiller. When using Acrobat PDFWriter, Acrobat PDFMaker cannot 
create bookmarks and other dynamic features. When using Acrobat Distiller, 
Acrobat PDFMaker will query Word for certain formatting features, such as 
heading styles, and convert them to Acrobat features." I am encouraged by 
this last sentence.

What's really annoying me is that, the first time I used PDFMaker on this 
document, the PDF file HAD bookmarks. When I looked it over, I saw that some 
table headings were badly formatted, so I changed the original Word doc and 
re-PDFed. Now the PDFMaker job failed after creating tags; yes, it just 
hangs, and Task Manager says the program is not responding.

I want bookmarks, dagnabbit!

So I use the Magic Word Solution to Every Problem, which is to copy 
everything but the last paragraph mark out of the original document, paste 
it into a new doc, and re-format it. I run PDFMaker from Word and there we 
are, a fine PDF with bookmarks. But again I see that the process has screwed 
up my formatting, so I correct in original, re-PDF, it hangs after tags, and 
I go and have another smoke. Note, I do NOT change the printer setting to 
Distiller.

Rule #1: Do not try to PDF using PDFMaker and Word 2000 more than once on 
the same document.
Rule #2: See Rule #1.

Regards,
Karen