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Subject:RE: PDF a "book" of Word files From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:44:36 -0400
Also, I tried it late yesterday afternoon. It's not intuitive, which is what
I need for the developers.
And yes, I need bookmarks and links.
John Posada
Information Hunter-Gatherer
Special Projects; Information Technology
Barnes&Noble.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Hollis Weber [mailto:jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 3:07 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: PDF a "book" of Word files
Bruce Byfield suggests to John Posada,
>I know that I'm going to sound as if I'm evangelizing, and maybe I am, a
>little. However, you might want to see how the word files look in
>OpenOffice.org.
>
>Assuming that there are no formatting problems (and there may very well
be),
>you can safely use the master document feature in OOo, and export directly
to
>PDF without using another program.
One major flaw in that idea, Bruce: PDFs created from OpenOffice.org,
either using its inbuilt export-as-PDF function, or printing to a
PostScript file and distilling using Acrobat, do NOT have bookmarks or
working internal links. Not a problem if the PDF is intended only for
printing, but John specifically mentioned bookmarks.
One item on my wishlist for OOo is a macro suite similar to PDFMaker for
Word.
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