TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
RE: Problems with TOC links in Word to Acrobat Conversions
Subject:RE: Problems with TOC links in Word to Acrobat Conversions From:Susan -dot- Jelus -at- daytonrcs -dot- com (Susan Jelus) To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:17:03 -0400
I had problems last week converting large Word docs with TOC links to pdf
documents. It started out with Acrobat blowing up and writing strange .txt
files in Word. And the TOC links wouldn't work in some of the pdf documents
that we were able to create.
Well, 3 days later, I've finally solved the problem. I thought I'd share
what I found out:
- To convert documents larger than 10 MB with Acrobat 7 and Word 2003 SP2,
we had to upgrade our RAM to 1 GB.
- We weren't able to get table of contents links to work reliably when we
used Acrobat 7 and Word 2003 (SP 2). We had to go back to Acrobat 6 and an
earlier version of Word 2003 (no service packs). I'm not actually sure if
Acrobat 7 or the Word SP was the culprit. I suspect it's Acrobat 7.
Have a good weekend. Thanks to eveeryone who offered advice.
Susan Jelus
NCR Technical Publications
Dayton, Ohio USA
WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word features support for every major Help
format plus PDF, HTML and more. Flexible, precise, and efficient content
delivery. Try it today!. http://www.webworks.com/techwr-l