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Subject:RE: PDF a "book" of Word files From:"Girardot, David" <David -dot- Girardot -at- dendrite -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:29:16 -0400
I used to use the INCLUDETEXT method many years ago. It worked great.
(Until one day it stopped working.) No idea why it stopped but
eventually it did and we were left with a formatting disaster the day
before the docs go to the printer. So I would not trust INCLUDETEXT...
What I do is use RD fields for the TOC, print each file including the
TOC/shell to numbered postscript files (00, 01, 02, ... ), and then use
a ps script I found on the web to create one big PDF out of all the
individual PS files. This method works great but you will not have
numbering continuing from one doc to the other, nor will you have
working links and bookmarks in the PDF.
Just keep reminding folks there was a reason why you switched to FM in
the first place. Word is great but it doesn't do everything.
-- David
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David M. Girardot
"My opinions are my own."
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From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com [mailto:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:00 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: PDF a "book" of Word files
David Locke wrote:
>
> Use the RD Field.
The RD field is great if you just need to create a TOC and index, but it
won't help you create the single PDF from multiple files.
If you use RD fields, you'll have to hard-code the page numbers in each
file; create a PDF from each of those files; create the TOC, other front
matter, and index in another file; then use Acrobat to splice it all
together.
INCLUDETEXT fields give you the same ability to create a TOC and index
that span multiple files *with* the benefit of letting you make a single
PDF in one pass, because the separate files temporarily become part of
the "container" file that holds them. It might take a long time and
really requires a machine with a lot of RAM, but it should work.
--David
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