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Subject:RE: Word to PDF vs. Frame to PDF From:"Geoff Lane" <geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk> To:"TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:32:54 +0100
Just my two eurocents here :-)
Although you can use the PDFMaker Word add-in to automatically create TOC
bookmarks and in-document hyperlinks, there is an upper limit (50 bookmarks
in the version that I have). I did find some instructions on increasing
this, but I couldn't get it to work effectively on 300-page-plus manuals. I
gave up when the document took over two hours to generate, and I still
didn't have enough 'headroom' for the number of required hyperlinks and
bookmarks. FWIW, the function of time/number of booksmarks seems to be
exponential :-(
I understand that Frame will create the bookmarks/hyperlinks 'out of the
box'. However, no guarantees because I haven't used Frame in a long time,
and I've never used Frame to produce PDFs.
HTH,
Geoff Lane
Cornwall, UK
geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk
