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Re: PDF from Word 2002 - no bookmarks, in a single file
Subject:Re: PDF from Word 2002 - no bookmarks, in a single file From:"Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 2 May 2002 09:07:37 -0600
> Seeking Group Wisdom here: I believe that I have an
> "Offending Character" in a 128 page Word 2002 document
> that I have converted to PDF.
What do you mean by "Offending Character" and why do you believe that?
>
> On a sister file, everything went fine -- all
> bookmarks and links converted, things were dandy. In
> this file, the conversion "chokes" when creating the
> bookmarks...
What do you mean by it "chokes"? What error messages or symptoms do you see?
Is the PDF being created, but without bookmarks, or does the process fail
completely?
>
> Can anyone provide advice as to how I might go about
> troubleshooting?
What version of Acrobat do you have? Are you using the Acrobat PDFMaker
plug-in in Word? Do you have a Distiller printer instance created from the
appropriate Distiller PPD?
>
> I suppose I could go ahead and create the bookmarks
> manually (yuck) -- but I would like to know if this is
> a common problem and how others have managed to solve
> it.
This suggests that you're getting a good PDF, but without bookmarks -- is
that what's happening? If so, have you checked your PDF setup in Word
(Acrobat>Change Conversion Settings)?
Sorry to be so little help, but without more information, we're shooting in
the dark.
Richard
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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT voyanttechDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT freeDASHmarketDOTnet
303-777-0436
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