Header HyperLinks & Conversion to PDF

[Thomas Schemmer [ ZaxisNet - Creative Media ]]

Hello,

Another problem,

I've made a hyperlink in the Header of the document what always goes to a
contents page.
This works fine in normal word, but when I convert it to PDF, the link does
not work. Other links within the page work, only the header and footer ones
don't.

Any suggesstions?

Cheers.

Thomas

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Hello,

Another problem,

I've made a hyperlink in the Header of the document what always goes
to a contents page.
This works fine in normal word, but when I convert it to PDF, the
link does not work. Other links within the page work, only the
header and footer ones don't.

Are you using the Adobe Distiller driver to create your PDFs?


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[Thomas Schemmer [ ZaxisNet - Creative Media ]]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your response.

No, I'm using the built in thing for Word, would it be better to use
distiller? more options I assume?

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your response.

No, I'm using the built in thing for Word, would it be better to use
distiller? more options I assume?

Word doesn't have anything built-in.. You are likely using one of Adobe's
macro add-ins. You should try one of the Adobe forums - but please mention
your Word and Acrobat versions.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=adobe.acrobat.windows is one way to get to those forums.

 

[Mark Tangard]

Hi Thomas,

What you're probably calling the "built-in thing" is the pair of
red & gray toolbar buttons that the Acrobat Add-In ("PDFMaker")
creates in Word. The PDFMaker button (screen tip: "Convert to
Adobe PDF") is not the same thing as the Distiller.

That's almost the entirety of my understanding, except for this:
When you use that button instead of printing to the Distiller,
your doc's hyperlinks and bookmarks are preserved. Heading styles
become Acrobat's navigational bookmarks. Regular Word bookmarks
also appear among the navigational bookmarks. And hyperlinks you
had built into the Word doc continue to work.

Except when they don't.

The Acrobat help is terribly shy about this, but it does say that
the above happens "by default." I haven't yet found a way to turn
it off (and hope I never do). But I've PDF'd Word docs that seemed
otherwise normal and yet PDFWriter didn't pick up the hyperlinks.

(I also made a really stupid mistake at least twice, which was to
assume that any spot in Word Doc #1 that was hyperlinked to Word
Doc #2 would be automatically changed by PDFing to be hyperlinked
to the PDF file I would be making from Word Doc #2. I doubt you're
as clueless as I was, but just thought I'd mention this.)

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[Thomas Schemmer [ ZaxisNet - Creative Media ]]

Mark,

Good thoughts to keep in mind, thank you.

As for Turning off hyperlinks and such, you can, and I found a way to do
so...
Under Acrobat > Change Conversion Settings then on the Bookmark Tab, you can
turn off or on or partially on the "Styles" that you want to be bookmarked
copied to PDF. But it's still not clear in Adobe about Headers. and the
documentation sucks. =P

Anyway, when I find a solution, I will post here for everyone who may have
this problem.

Thanks for your replies.

Cheers.

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

What you're probably calling the "built-in thing" is the pair of
red & gray toolbar buttons that the Acrobat Add-In ("PDFMaker")
creates in Word. The PDFMaker button (screen tip: "Convert to
Adobe PDF") is not the same thing as the Distiller.

That's almost the entirety of my understanding, except for this:
When you use that button instead of printing to the Distiller,
your doc's hyperlinks and bookmarks are preserved. Heading styles
become Acrobat's navigational bookmarks. Regular Word bookmarks
also appear among the navigational bookmarks. And hyperlinks you
had built into the Word doc continue to work.

Except when they don't.

The Acrobat help is terribly shy about this, but it does say that
the above happens "by default." I haven't yet found a way to turn
it off (and hope I never do). But I've PDF'd Word docs that seemed
otherwise normal and yet PDFWriter didn't pick up the hyperlinks.

(I also made a really stupid mistake at least twice, which was to
assume that any spot in Word Doc #1 that was hyperlinked to Word
Doc #2 would be automatically changed by PDFing to be hyperlinked
to the PDF file I would be making from Word Doc #2. I doubt you're
as clueless as I was, but just thought I'd mention this.)

--
Mark Tangard, Microsoft Word MVP
Please reply only to the newsgroup, not by private email.
Note well: MVPs do not work for Microsoft.
"Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=adobe.acrobat.windows is one way to get to those forums.