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Subject:Re: Word 2003 to pdf WITH active links From:"Walter Campbell" <atypicaluser -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"wendy_lewis -at- goodyear -dot- com" <wendy_lewis -at- goodyear -dot- com> Date:Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:34:34 -0700
I seem to recall some compatibility problems between Office 2003 and Acrobat
7.0; this ringing bells with anyone else?
Wendy, you seem to have confirmed that the PDFMaker add-on wasn't installed.
You might try un/re-installing Acrobat to see if that solves the problem. If
it doesn't, download and install all available Acrobat upgrades (I think
there's a 7.0.5 and a 7.0.7).
Perhaps that will do the trick.
You mentioned that you tried to generate the PDF using the same method that
you'd use with Frame, but I don't think you mentioned the result. Did you
get a PDF? If so, I doubt it contained bookmarks and active hyperlinks
within the document. The "print to PDF" option can be used to convert any
printable file to a PDF, but the drawback is that you won't get
embellishments such as bookmarks and hyperlinks (unless the authoring tool
is Frame).
Good luck!
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Walt Campbell
atypicaluser (at) gmail (dot) com
On 4/19/06, wendy_lewis -at- goodyear -dot- com <wendy_lewis -at- goodyear -dot- com> wrote:
>
> This is driving me crazy. I've searched everywhere and think it's
> something simple that I'm not doing.
> I'm using Word 2003 and Acrobat 7.0. When I pdf, the links are not active.
> When you install Acrobat 7.0, it doesn't install PDFMaker, like I'm used
> to.
>
>
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