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RE: PDF maker recommendations needed

Subject: RE: PDF maker recommendations needed
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:47:15 -0400

In order to produce a PDF that preserves hyperlinks that are
coded in some authoring tool (e.g. MS Word or FrameMaker),
you have to use a tool that "hooks into" the authoring tool,
and AFAIK that means Adobe Acrobat. To the best of my
knowledge, all other PDF generation tools (or at least any
that are not integrated into the authoring tool itself, like
InDesign's Save As PDF function) can only create
non-interactive PDFs.

As to the problem that you seem to be having with Acrobat,
I'm not sure I understand your description. What do you
mean by "but not the headers and footers"? Are you saying
that these are absent from the PDFs you produce?

As to converting PDF back into Word, have you tried Acrobat's
own Save As function? As of Acrobat 7.0, many people report
that this works fairly well at converting PDFs to RTF or .doc
formats. Personally, I try to avoid back-conversions from PDF
because I'm aware of what the inherent limitations are.


From: dodd -at- teleport -dot- com
Reply-To: dodd -at- teleport -dot- com
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: PDF maker recommendations needed
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:25:58 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Hi, all:

I need some recommendations for a PDF maker software. I need to be able to keep links, bookmarks, cross-references, headers, and footers. I'm currently using Word 2003 on Windows XP.

Right now I have Acrobat Standard 7.0. I've tried to make PDFs using both the buttons in the menu of the Word interface and from Acrobat directly. In both cases, it keeps the bookmarks, and active hyperlinks and cross-references, but not the headers and footers.

I also have the option to Print to File using the Adobe PDF printer -- under the Printers & Faxes control panel > Adobe PDF > Properties dialog box, for "model", it says is Adobe PDF Converter, but no version number, so I'm not exactly sure what this is. This option keeps the headers and footers, but not any of the bookmarks, or active links or cross-references.

Can you all recommend a PDF maker software for me?

Also, I need a converter that turns PDFs into Word documents. It would be ideal if it could somehow keep styles of some sort, but this is probably asking too much.

Please respond to the list. If you respond directly to me, you'll get caught in my spam filter.

thanks
Patrice

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