Re: Converting Word Doc with Hyperlinks to Adobe PDF - newbie question

["Kelly Smith" <ksmith -at- triton -dot- net>]

Hi Lorraine, all,

Thanks for your comments, and thanks to all those who e-mailed me directly.

Yesterday one of the managers here (who has experience in Adobe) spent
almost 2 hours trying to make that document convert -and- keep the links.
While converting it did work (we no longer get the blank pages that I got
whenI tried converting it on my other PC), nothing he tried would make the links
work.

We did convert just part of the document (4 of 28 pages), and those pages
worked perfectly, even the links! But each time we tried the exact same
method on the full document, either the links wouldn't work, or else it would
go through the whole converstion process, and then not save the PDF.

We thought it must have something to do with all the text boxes (We have at
least 2 per page, and they contain all the 'content'.)...

The manager came over just as I was typing this, and said that he tried
getting rid of most of the text boxes, and deleted the TOC that I had created
manually, and it seems to work.

Unfortunately there's no time to fix the formatting for this issue, but
*next*time, I will use tables instead of text boxes to contain the text, and
that way Ican auto-generate the TOC. If I have problems with it, you'll probably hear
back from me in January. ;)

Thank you to everyone who assisted me with this!
Happy Thanksgiving. :)

Kelly

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Subject: FW: Converting Word Doc with Hyperlinks to Adobe PDF - newbie
question
From: "Lorraine Butchart" <Lorraine -dot- Butchart -at- corel -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:16:06 -0500
X-Message-Number: 17

Sorry this is a few days after the thread--but I finally got my e-mail
working again.

I don't know whether this has any relevance to the problem (because I
don't know your setup), but it has been my experience that the Adobe
PDFMaker for Word works much better if everything (the document that you
want to convert to PDF, the PDF destination folder, MS Word, and
Acrobat) are all physically located on the computer you are working
from.

There have been many times when I've tried to create a PDF from a
document located on one of our network drives using PDFMaker. Sometimes
it works, sort of, but without creating any links, and sometimes (more
often) it hangs. But if I copy the document to my own hard drive, I can
usually create the PDF, links and all, with no major problems.

(If you are working with a large Word document that has a lot of links,
PDFMaker can take quite awhile. You need to be patient.)

Lorraine Butchart
Documentation Specialist, XML Content Solutions
Corel Corporation
www.corel.com





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