Saving word to pdf keeping url links active

[Erling]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

Hello,

does anyone of you know how to keep the links active when you save a word document to pdf?

They are still blue, but not clickable in the pdf...

THANK YOU!

 

[CyberTaz]

What are you using to view the PDF? Apple's Preview.app?

Try using Adobe Reader - free download:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

does anyone of you know how to keep the links active when you save a
word document to pdf?

Well the problem is that the link is not preserved through Apple.s PDF
engine, or even through Acrobat Pro. Huge limitation compared to the
Windows version.

In Acrobat Pro, you can scan the document and enable all the links after
the PDF has bee generated (but the text for the links MUST be a fully
valid URL, eg: "http://www.apple.com" would work, but not "Apple's
website" enabled as a link to http://www.apple.com).

Corentin

 

[CyberTaz]

Well the problem is that the link is not preserved through Apple.s PDF
engine, or even through Acrobat Pro. Huge limitation compared to the
Windows version.

In Acrobat Pro, you can scan the document and enable all the links after
the PDF has bee generated (but the text for the links MUST be a fully
valid URL, eg: "http://www.apple.com" would work, but not "Apple's
website" enabled as a link to http://www.apple.com).

Corentin

Ahhhh, not entirely true

Generate the Word PDF - Save As or Print method, open it in Acrobat & save
as an Adobe PDF. Voilà - instant resurrection of dead hyperlinks.

Also, if you have Acrobat you can set Acrobat (8.0 or later) as your printer
through Page Setup then use the Save As> PDF method. The hyperlinks will be
preserved as live links.

Whether it works with other PDF creators I don't know, but the Apple PDF
engine appears to be the weak link [pun intended].

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Also, if you have Acrobat you can set Acrobat (8.0 or later) as your printer
through Page Setup then use the Save As> PDF method. The hyperlinks will be
preserved as live links.

Very interesting indeed. I had sort of stopped using the PDF virtual
printer in the past (and favored reworking my files through the PDF
optimizer in Acrobat)
This gives me a very good motivation to go back to it.

In the past, it behaved just the same as the Apple engine and lost the
links.

Corentin

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Everyone in the Adobe Acrobat for Mac newsgroups say that (parroting the
company line) that Office Mac, never has and never will provide the
necessary hooks to provide the live link transfer. you must use acrobat
to actually manually create them within Acrobat.

I don't know whose fault it is but it has been that way since Office has
been able to insert links.

Well the problem is that the link is not preserved through Apple.s PDF
engine, or even through Acrobat Pro. Huge limitation compared to the
Windows version.

In Acrobat Pro, you can scan the document and enable all the links after
the PDF has bee generated (but the text for the links MUST be a fully
valid URL, eg: "http://www.apple.com" would work, but not "Apple's
website" enabled as a link to http://www.apple.com).

Corentin

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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Also maybe they have fixed the problem in the direct *Save As* method
in 2008 now in which a built in PDF converter is used rather than
depending upon Print as PDF or even using the Adobe Print Driver.

The reason why the Print to PDF method fro apple doesn't work as good.
Is that they always stay two or more version behind, so as to not give
Adobe the idea not to provide a version of acrobat for the Mac Platform

Very interesting indeed. I had sort of stopped using the PDF virtual
printer in the past (and favored reworking my files through the PDF
optimizer in Acrobat)
This gives me a very good motivation to go back to it.

In the past, it behaved just the same as the Apple engine and lost the
links.

Corentin

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[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Everyone in the Adobe Acrobat for Mac newsgroups say that (parroting the
company line) that Office Mac, never has and never will provide the
necessary hooks to provide the live link transfer. you must use acrobat
to actually manually create them within Acrobat.

I don't know whose fault it is but it has been that way since Office has
been able to insert links.

There might be some truth in it. If I quite remember, their Office
plug-in is written in VBA.....
This could mean that it could change in future versions of Offcie where
VBA support will be back (and hopefully improved).

Corentin

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

Next time you are in the group, why not rev them up a little?

You could point out that the necessary "hooks" have been present in Word 98,
2001, X, and 2004; and will be there again in Word 2008.

In fact, the Adobe plug-in on the PC relies on a lump of Windows to do one
of its functions (this is proper practice, and relatively common in VBA).

The exact same functions are also present in Apple OS X (of course they are:
the computer wouldn't run without them...)

But that would mean that Adobe would have to add four more lines of code and
an IF statement, to figure out whether or not they were running on a Mac.

Obviously too hard for the giant Adobe software factory. But it's not an
insurmountable obstacle in the simple macros I write here.

Microsoft even built in a VBA function to do it automatically

Cheers

Everyone in the Adobe Acrobat for Mac newsgroups say that (parroting the
company line) that Office Mac, never has and never will provide the
necessary hooks to provide the live link transfer. you must use acrobat
to actually manually create them within Acrobat.

I don't know whose fault it is but it has been that way since Office has
been able to insert links.

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

They have completely removed the PDFMaker Tool from Acrobat 9.

There might be some truth in it. If I quite remember, their Office
plug-in is written in VBA.....
This could mean that it could change in future versions of Office where
VBA support will be back (and hopefully improved).

Corentin

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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Next time it comes up in the group I will.

I figured it was company line any way.

It took Ms since PDF was out to figure out that adobe developers were
either too lazy or too ignorant to figure out how to read your codes for
Page breaks and section breaks to prevent breaking up a word document
into Multiple PDF's that had to be put back together; until 2008. This
is when MS added their own PDF converter in the Save As.... command and
have none of that happen. That way they could tell adobe to kiss my .. .

Hi Phillip:

Next time you are in the group, why not rev them up a little?

You could point out that the necessary "hooks" have been present in Word 98,
2001, X, and 2004; and will be there again in Word 2008.

In fact, the Adobe plug-in on the PC relies on a lump of Windows to do one
of its functions (this is proper practice, and relatively common in VBA).

The exact same functions are also present in Apple OS X (of course they are:
the computer wouldn't run without them...)

But that would mean that Adobe would have to add four more lines of code and
an IF statement, to figure out whether or not they were running on a Mac.

Obviously too hard for the giant Adobe software factory. But it's not an
insurmountable obstacle in the simple macros I write here.

Microsoft even built in a VBA function to do it automatically

Cheers

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[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

{Giggle} When you're revving them up, don't copy my mistake: I said 2008
had the "hooks" -- it does, but it doesn't have a VBA runtime, so they may
as well not be there. Word 2010 will have them back again.

The Word "Save As" command probably uses the exact same Adobe PDF module
that the Mac uses everywhere else, but simply sets different parameters for
the print job.

Cheers

Next time it comes up in the group I will.

I figured it was company line any way.

It took Ms since PDF was out to figure out that adobe developers were
either too lazy or too ignorant to figure out how to read your codes for
Page breaks and section breaks to prevent breaking up a word document
into Multiple PDF's that had to be put back together; until 2008. This
is when MS added their own PDF converter in the Save As.... command and
have none of that happen. That way they could tell adobe to kiss my .. .

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Have you actually used the Save As... > PDF within 2008?

Its seems to be a word written converter. And show up as a converter
type in the list of converters. Its much faster than the Print to PDF
feature in the apple printer menu. you go through almost the same time
frame as using the adobePDF Printer Driver supplied by adobe, when using
Apple's Print to Pdf Feature.

All I know is what I have experienced using it. Maybe I grow Martian
antenna on my head and unconsciously zap the file as being processed.
But something is different. :-(

Hi Phillip:

{Giggle} When you're revving them up, don't copy my mistake: I said 2008
had the "hooks" -- it does, but it doesn't have a VBA runtime, so they may
as well not be there. Word 2010 will have them back again.

The Word "Save As" command probably uses the exact same Adobe PDF module
that the Mac uses everywhere else, but simply sets different parameters for
the print job.

Cheers

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If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! http://www.vpea.org
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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Disregard the just posted reply to this thread.

Wasn't paying attention to the thread though I was replying to another
thread.

Hi Phillip:

{Giggle} When you're revving them up, don't copy my mistake: I said 2008
had the "hooks" -- it does, but it doesn't have a VBA runtime, so they may
as well not be there. Word 2010 will have them back again.

The Word "Save As" command probably uses the exact same Adobe PDF module
that the Mac uses everywhere else, but simply sets different parameters for
the print job.

Cheers

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Phillip M. Jones, CET mailto[email protected]
If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! http://www.vpea.org
http://www.phillipmjones.net
G4-500 Mac 1.5 GB RAM OSX.3.9 G4-1.67 GB PowerBook 17" 2GB RAM OSX.4.11
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