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RE: How to make a Library of all docs from PDF files?
Subject:RE: How to make a Library of all docs from PDF files? From:"Chinell, David F \(GE Indust, Security\)" <David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:35:17 -0500
Kamran:
You could combine all the separate PDFs into one PDF, or you could leave them as separate PDFs -- one per document. Here's what I do for the separate documents approach.
Create a "Home" page PDF. This is opened by the Aurorun function. It is your splash screen for the collection, and might include a basic tutorial on how to use the important Acrobat functions: bookmarks and searches. It has bookmarks for only the top level of the collection. That is, only bookmarks for the separate documents.
Once the reader jumps to one of the separate documents, that document's bookmarks -- down to whatever level you desire -- are present by virtue of your Word-to-PDF macro. All you have to do is add a bookmark that jumps them back to the Home page.
Finally, before each publication, you generate an index for the collection. The splash page is coded to load this index on opening.
Bear
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Subject: How to make a Library of all docs from PDF files?
Hey Doc Friends,
Can somebody tell me how to create a library from PDF files?
For example, in Robohelp one can design the structure of help document form
HTML docs. I dont want to use RoboHelp, and this is not a help document that
I am working on. However, our customer requires all the documents related to
product to be bundled together into one large PDF file. So that everyone can
access any document by click on the "Bookmark", which would rather serve as
a TOC of Help file as an example.
I want to utilize my existing .pdf files and want to make a library with
Table of Contents on the left handside as "Bookmarks" showing the title of
each PDF document and then each doc's sections upto three Heading levels.
My source of creating PDF file is the plug-in from MS-Word and I also have
Adobe Acrobat Professional Version 7.
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