Re: Master/sub DOC to PDF glitch

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

Susan Jelus wrote:
> 
> The first time I tried to create the .pdf, I used Acrobat 4.  The Table of
> Contents links (created automatically in Word) didn't work, but the Acrobat
> Bookmarks in the side panel did.    I upgraded to Acrobat 5, hoping that
> would solve the problem.  Now all the links sort of work.  But they take you
> to the BOTTOM of the first page of the appropriate section.  You have to
> scroll up to see the title at the top of the page.

We've noticed (to our profound disappointment) that Acrobat 5 TOC and index links don't take you to the top of a page (as in earlier versions) but to a specific location on a page (like HTML).

In other words, if your TOC contains a listing like this:

  Chapter 1:  Welcome to FooMaster 3000.............1
    Audience........................................1
    Key concepts....................................2

...and you click on the "Audience" link, Acrobat jumps to the point halfway down page 1 where the Audience heading appears.

That might seem like a good idea, and people expect it in HTML (which often has long pages that go way beyond the boundary of a single screen).  But it really stinks in a PDF file that simply represents a book.  In a book, references to page numbers always "take you" to the top of the page--it's up to you to scroll down to the appropriate location.

An additional problem is that (as with HTML) Acrobat can't scroll all the way to a location that's close to the bottom of the document.  The result is that you never know how close to the target you'll actually be when you click on a link.

I *vastly* prefer the old method of Acrobat 4, in which every TOC and index link just took you to the top of the page.

--David

=============================
 David M. Brown - Brown Inc.
    dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
=============================

A V A I L A B L E   N O W !        http://www.html-indexer.com/ 

HTML Indexer 3, still the easiest way to create and maintain real 
back-of-the-book indexes for web sites and other HTML documents.

Now including options for HTML Help and JavaHelp indexes, too!

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
PC Magazine gives RoboHelp Office 2002 five stars - a perfect score!
"The ultimate developer's tool for designing help systems. A product
no professional help designer should be without." Check out RoboHelp at
http://www.ehelp.com/techwr
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-  Visit 
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.