pdf file with links

[memphissound]

I want to create a pdf file with links embedded in it. How do I do that? When I "save as..." and choose pdf it doesn't create links.

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[Michel Bintener]

You can't. The generation of hyperlinks in PDFs is not supported by Word and
the default PDF engine in Mac OS X.

I want to create a pdf file with links embedded in it. How do I do that? When
I "save as..." and choose pdf it doesn't create links.

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[Phillip Jones]

You'll have to have Acrobat Pro 7 or 8 in order to create your links,
after saving as a PDF document from Word.

You can't. The generation of hyperlinks in PDFs is not supported by Word and
the default PDF engine in Mac OS X.

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[David Oppenheimer]

I have Adobe Acrobat Professional v 8.0.0 and Word 2008 and have been unable to preserve links when converting from Word to pdf. Is there a work-around or another option to Acrobat?

Cheers,
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[Phillip Jones]

Afraid not. adobe swears everything on their end is capable. But for
whatever reason MS doesn't put the appropriate hooks into any version of
Mac office to do this. PC version has always had them. (my words here:
And I don't suppose they ever will).

You can add links but the procedure is tedious and time consuming.

I have Adobe Acrobat Professional v 8.0.0 and Word 2008 and have been unable to preserve links when converting from Word to pdf. Is there a work-around or another option to Acrobat?

Cheers,
David o

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<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm>

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[John McGhie]

Acrobat never has "preserved" links between Word and PDF.

It used a large slab of VBA to "re-create" the links after it re-expressed
the document in PDF format. When VBA went away, so did Adobe's ability to
add hyperlinks to PDFs in Mac Word.

Since VBA is now coming back in the next version, Word 14, you could expect
that the hyperlinks will be back then.

In the meantime, either use the latest version of Acrobat, which has the
ability to "guess" hyperlinks from standard URIs, or use Acrobat PDFMaker in
the PC version of Word.

Hope this helps

I have Adobe Acrobat Professional v 8.0.0 and Word 2008 and have been unable
to preserve links when converting from Word to pdf. Is there a work-around or
another option to Acrobat?

Cheers,
David o

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[Phillip Jones]

I use Acrobat have since version 4.

The Mac version never has had the ability to bring over links create in
Office.

In Mac Acrobat if you converted a document that had links set up that
worked. none came over and you had to recreate them. Now Like John says
PC version of PDFMaker does do that but as he says PDFMaker was a VBA
application. which no longer works any at all in 2008.

When asked in the acrobat forums the people equivalent to MS MVP's, have
said That Mac office have never had the appropriate hooks embedded in
the applications make it work. This has been Adobes Company line since
Acrobat 4 when PDFMaker first made it debut.

Acrobat never has "preserved" links between Word and PDF.

It used a large slab of VBA to "re-create" the links after it re-expressed
the document in PDF format. When VBA went away, so did Adobe's ability to
add hyperlinks to PDFs in Mac Word.

Since VBA is now coming back in the next version, Word 14, you could expect
that the hyperlinks will be back then.

In the meantime, either use the latest version of Acrobat, which has the
ability to "guess" hyperlinks from standard URIs, or use Acrobat PDFMaker in
the PC version of Word.

Hope this helps

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<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm>

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[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

Well, it would be interesting to find out what they mean by "Hooks".
Because in Word 2004 the hyperlinks are perfectly exposed to VBA.

It may not be a ten minute job, but any competent VBA coder could run up a
routine to harvest the hyperlinks from a Word document in a few days. Hell,
I could probably do it myself in a week/month!

I wonder if the "hooks" they are complaining about not having are actually
missing from Acrobat for the Mac

Cheers

I use Acrobat have since version 4.

The Mac version never has had the ability to bring over links create in
Office.

In Mac Acrobat if you converted a document that had links set up that
worked. none came over and you had to recreate them. Now Like John says
PC version of PDFMaker does do that but as he says PDFMaker was a VBA
application. which no longer works any at all in 2008.

When asked in the acrobat forums the people equivalent to MS MVP's, have
said That Mac office have never had the appropriate hooks embedded in
the applications make it work. This has been Adobes Company line since
Acrobat 4 when PDFMaker first made it debut.

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[Phillip Jones, CET]

I don't know what they are talking about either. but until Office 2008
PDFMaker worked though took forever and two days to finish the task.

However if any links created by Word/Excel/PowerPoint that were active,
not one was active. you have to go in Acrobat and highlight and create
them. And you had to underline and color them blue before actually make
the link with link tool.

Acrobat 8, does find and create links if they are formatted properly
(begin with the http or the pjones@) if you have a a word as hot link
you do it manually.

According to the forum experts at acrobat forums, the PC version of
Acrobat has no problem. And they claim the only difference between code
for Mac and PC is the mapping to keys and the GUI differences.The is
supposed to be a difference between the Mac Office and the PC Office.

I don't know what the hooks are either. All I know its a PIA to make up
the differences between the Mac and PC versions.

Hi Phillip:

Well, it would be interesting to find out what they mean by "Hooks".
Because in Word 2004 the hyperlinks are perfectly exposed to VBA.

It may not be a ten minute job, but any competent VBA coder could run up a
routine to harvest the hyperlinks from a Word document in a few days. Hell,
I could probably do it myself in a week/month!

I wonder if the "hooks" they are complaining about not having are actually
missing from Acrobat for the Mac

Cheers

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<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html>
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[Art]

I want to create a pdf file with links embedded in it. How do I do
that? When I "save as..." and choose pdf it doesn't create links.

memphissound <><

As others have indicated in this thread, this capability isn't supported
on the Mac version.

However, there is a way to accomplish this:

Import the Word document into OpenOffice. OO has extensive capabilities
for creating pdf's with automatically generated hyperlinks as specified
in the source Word document. If you have a table of contents, bookmarks
can be generated automatically as well from TOC entries, including
preservation of the TOC hierarchy. With an extra step, hyperlinked TOC
entries can be created.

OO does a reasonable job of importing a Word document with limited or no
post-processing required depending on the complexity of the original
Word document.

The OO pdf export command has a number of controls for image resolution,
pdf view settings, security, etc. This saves the additional steps that
would need to be performed by post-processing the pdf in Acrobat.

HTH.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Art:

Thanks for that: that's a VERY valuable tip

The price of Open Office compares very favourably with the price of Acrobat


Cheers

As others have indicated in this thread, this capability isn't supported
on the Mac version.

However, there is a way to accomplish this:

Import the Word document into OpenOffice. OO has extensive capabilities
for creating pdf's with automatically generated hyperlinks as specified
in the source Word document. If you have a table of contents, bookmarks
can be generated automatically as well from TOC entries, including
preservation of the TOC hierarchy. With an extra step, hyperlinked TOC
entries can be created.

OO does a reasonable job of importing a Word document with limited or no
post-processing required depending on the complexity of the original
Word document.

The OO pdf export command has a number of controls for image resolution,
pdf view settings, security, etc. This saves the additional steps that
would need to be performed by post-processing the pdf in Acrobat.

HTH.

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[Art]

Hi Art:

Thanks for that: that's a VERY valuable tip

The price of Open Office compares very favourably with the price of Acrobat


Cheers

np .

It should be noted that the Mac version of OO is not a pure Mac port as
it uses X11 as its' windowing system. The standard OS X install (at
least on 10.4.x) does not install X11. However, this is a
straightforward, one-time install from the OS X distribution media.
After the install, it is desirable to run Software Update to get the
latest version of X11. OO will alert the user if X11 is not installed.

To the OO developer team's credit, they did a good job of mapping Word's
functionality into OO. As a Word user, it is fairly intuitive to pick up
the basic functionality. However, there are differences in the UI due to
the X11 windowing system (eg: use of ctl key vs. Mac command key on
commands equivalents).

 

[Art]

Import the Word document into OpenOffice. OO has extensive capabilities
for creating pdf's with automatically generated hyperlinks as specified
in the source Word document. If you have a table of contents, bookmarks
can be generated automatically as well from TOC entries, including
preservation of the TOC hierarchy. With an extra step, hyperlinked TOC
entries can be created.

OO does a reasonable job of importing a Word document with limited or no
post-processing required depending on the complexity of the original
Word document.

The OO pdf export command has a number of controls for image resolution,
pdf view settings, security, etc. This saves the additional steps that
would need to be performed by post-processing the pdf in Acrobat.

HTH.

np .

It should be noted that the Mac version of OO is not a pure Mac port as
it uses X11 as its' windowing system.

Many have had good luck with the beta-3 version of OO which does run
natively in OS X. Downloads available from
<http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html>. Both PPC
and Intel versions are available.[/QUOTE]

Just downloaded the 3.0.0en-US version - looks good ! Definite UI
improvement
over the v2.4 X11 based version.

 

[Art]

Import the Word document into OpenOffice. OO has extensive capabilities
for creating pdf's with automatically generated hyperlinks as specified
in the source Word document. >[...]

It should be noted that the Mac version of OO is not a pure Mac port as
it uses X11 as its' windowing system.

Many have had good luck with the beta-3 version of OO which does run
natively in OS X. Downloads available from
<http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html>. Both PPC
and Intel versions are available.

Just downloaded the 3.0.0en-US version - looks good ! Definite UI
improvement
over the v2.4 X11 based version.[/QUOTE]
Although the 3.0.0b MacOS X PPC-Aqua version is a vast UI improvement
over the 2.4 X11 version, a number of existing 2.4 features don't work
correctly or didn't make it into this build. This is certainly
understandable as a beta release.

Some examples:
- The View/Toolbars/Hyperlink Bar command results in a blank toolbar
line with no functionality buttons or menus (a generic tooltip for this
bar is visible, however ).

- When importing a Word .doc document, the importer loses "list style
bullet types". They can be recreated manually by editing the list style.

 

[Art]

As others have indicated in this thread, this capability isn't supported
on the Mac version.

However, there is a way to accomplish this:

Import the Word document into OpenOffice. OO has extensive capabilities
for creating pdf's with automatically generated hyperlinks as specified
in the source Word document. If you have a table of contents, bookmarks
can be generated automatically as well from TOC entries, including
preservation of the TOC hierarchy. With an extra step, hyperlinked TOC
entries can be created.

[...]
For anyone interested in how to do hyperlinked TOC's:

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/01/think_pdf_openo.html

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Import the Word document into OpenOffice. OO has extensive
capabilities
for creating pdf's with automatically generated hyperlinks as
specified
in the source Word document. >[...]

It should be noted that the Mac version of OO is not a pure Mac port
as it uses X11 as its' windowing system.

Many have had good luck with the beta-3 version of OO which does run
natively in OS X. Downloads available from
<http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html>. Both PPC
and Intel versions are available.

Just downloaded the 3.0.0en-US version - looks good ! Definite UI
improvement
over the v2.4 X11 based version.

Although the 3.0.0b MacOS X PPC-Aqua version is a vast UI improvement
over the 2.4 X11 version, a number of existing 2.4 features don't work
correctly or didn't make it into this build. This is certainly
understandable as a beta release.

Some examples:
- The View/Toolbars/Hyperlink Bar command results in a blank toolbar
line with no functionality buttons or menus (a generic tooltip for this
bar is visible, however ).

- When importing a Word .doc document, the importer loses "list style
bullet types". They can be recreated manually by editing the list style.

Hi,

Most Mac users should stick with NeoOffice. The builds from the
OpenOffice web site do not support Visual Basic for Applications and the
2.4 build doesn't have the integrated XML document converter. NeoOffice
has both of those things.

Windows users who are not developers should consider OxygenOffice builds
for the same reasons, IMHO.

OxygenOffice and NeoOffice are derived from Go OpenOffice, so they have
something important in common. Go OpenOffice is a "downstream" of the
OpenOffice builds from the OpenOffice web site. The "upstream" builds
lack add-ins and other functionality that one might expect from an out
of the box product. NeoOffice and OxygenOffice are further downstream,
meaning they have more functionality.

-Jim

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