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Message: [QUOTE="Phillip M. Jones, CE.T., post: 6849785"] I do it one of two methods. The first takes longer. First method. after document is created go to > Prin Menu. When print window comes up choose the AdobePDF 7 Print Driver and printer of choice (leave the Page setup alone) Setup rest of the menu choices as desired. only one or two are actually changed if need. One choice you have it to open Acroabt or Reader to view as soon as created. And the other you can choose the dpi at which the printer prints default is 1200dpi. (actually sets the size of the Graphics within the PDF). Then click save. when save window comes up name file, and choose location to save The conversion is a two step process. first the driver creates a Postcript file. The distiller in the back ground converts the .ps file to a PDF file. In the second method which is much faster. Go to print menu and in list of options (click the copies and pages button) choose Print options. click on check box. Then click on button that says pdf and change to Postscript. Save postscript file to desired location. Now either open Acrobat and open the .ps file (or drop file on Distiller). THe file is then converted (by Distiller) to a PDF which you save. The exact same technique is used reagardless if Using a PC or Mac (except the ability to drag and Drop I am unsure if PC's are capable of such.) In PDF's created in Acrobat 7 PC the links remain active, are colored blue, and underlined. On the Mac PDF's they are not and you must first select the desired text (in Acrobat 7), choose properties, turn text color Blue, then draw a line underneath, go to properties and change color to blue and set weight to 1.5). THEN....... either use link tool and create a bounding box and create link, or .......... choose from Advanced Menu > create Links. Then the link becomes active. The folks at Adobe say Microsoft deliberately left out the proper "Hooks" in the code in the Mac version. (Some says it was done on purpose as an additional incentive to drive people away from the Mac Platform. Others dont say that but say they just left some code out whether intentional or no. It seems to be working as the person that originated the thread is considering dumping is brand new Mac powerBook and go get a new PC just to be able to do this.) Frankly this erks me no end because I have to spend an extra 10 minutes to an hour or two fixing links in my PDF's on our Association website because of this. Sometimes I wonder if my years of acid reflux would go away if I had gone to the Darkside years ago. :-( -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112 |pjones@kimbanet.com, ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:pjones@kimbanet.com <[URL]http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm[/URL]> <[URL]http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm[/URL]> <[URL]http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html[/URL]> <[URL]http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm[/URL]> <[URL]http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm[/URL]> <[URL]http://vpea.exis.net[/URL]> [/QUOTE]

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