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Subject:Re: PDF & Linking TOCs From:"Ellen L. Lidington" <elidington -at- ITSA -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:48:36 -0400
I addressed the identical question to Adobe technical support last week.
You must download the free software PDFMaker from Adobe's web site.
You will also need to download the Distiller print driver, if you do not already
have it. Once you install it, it creates its own icon on your Word window
and you're all set. The address for the description of PDFMaker 1.0 for
Word 97 is www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/NOTES/a4aa.htm.
>From there you can click on the address for the download. Happy PDFing.
Ellen Lidington
On Thursday, April 15, 1999 9:19 AM, Geri Lou Ciotoli [SMTP:GCIOTOLI -at- ECS-INC -dot- COM] wrote:
> Background:
> I have a Word document with hyperlinks from the TOC to the body and call out
> references to the graphics. I then create an Acrobat PDF file using
> PDFWriter and the links are not there. I've found I have to manually create
> the links in the PDF document for on-line viewing.. this seems absurd.
> Manually linking the TOC, TOT, & TOF in such large books would take forever!
> I'm using Word97 and Acrobat Exchange 3.01.
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> Question:
> Is it possible for the links to remain during PDF creation? Perhaps, I'm
> just missing something.. I've looked in the on-line help and can't find
> anything pertaining to this type of linking.
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> Please respond to me personally as I only receive the DIGEST version of Tech
> Writer List.
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> Geri Lou Ciotoli
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