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RE: Table of Contents in Word - Make into hyperlinks - Acrobat question?
Subject:RE: Table of Contents in Word - Make into hyperlinks - Acrobat question? From:"Yvette, Denoga" <Yvettedenoga -at- crimsonlogic -dot- com> To:"Rick Bishop" <rickbishop -at- austin -dot- rr -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:03:21 +0800
I know this is a bit off-topic already, but since we're talking about Acrobat, might as well find out if anyone can help me on this.
I've been checking out the Adobe forums, and not much has been said about this bug I encountered. I think it's a bug because there's no logical reason why this is happening in my PDFs. I use Word 2003 and use Acrobat Professional 7.
Since we use A4 pages for our manuals, when I generate a PDF from the Adobe PDF menu, the final PDF has missing footers. No matter what I did (change settings to A4 in adobe distiller, normal.dot, Adobe conversion settings, you name it), I still had missing footers.
The only solution was that I increased my footer setting in Word to 0.75. That makes for a lot of white space on the bottom, but there must be some easier way to make the footers appear. If any of you know of a better way, I'd appreciate the help. Thanks.
Yvette
-----Original Message-----
From: techwr-l-bounces+yvettedenoga=crimsonlogic -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+yvettedenoga=crimsonlogic -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Rick Bishop
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:22 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Table of Contents in Word - Make into hyperlinks
Maria: I assume that you have the full version of Acrobat 6 or 7 installed AFTER MS Office is installed and you have an Acrobat toolbar and menu in Word.
1. Click the Adobe PDF menu and choose Change Conversion Settings.
2. The Adobe PDFMaker dialog box opens. It contains tabs with a number of different options.
3. Choose Standard from the Conversion Settings pop-up menu on the Settings tab, embed your fonts, etc.
4. The View Adobe PDF results option should also be checked to ensure that the converted ïle will display automatically.
5. Next, look under the Application Settings heading and verify that the Add Links To Adobe PDF option is checked so that any hyperlinks in your document will be automatically converted to Acrobat links.
You don't need a 3rd party application to convert Word links to Acrobat links. If control-click works in Word, it will work in Acrobat every time.
6. Once your settings are changed, then you can just click the "Make PDF" button for the next document.
Let me know if you have any other conversion issues.
Rick Bishop
-----Original Message----
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:41 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Table of Contents in Word
Maria Peera wrote:
> Hi,
> Also, when I create a pdf out of it, the hyperlinks in the TOC do
> not seem to work.
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