Another Word to PDF Lost Link Question

[Dale Wood]

I'm having a similar problem in that links to external documents, sites, and
TOC links are not created; cross references within the document do. I am
using PDFMaker 5, Acrobat 5, Word XP.

Any ideas?

 

[Kevin Harper]

I believe Acrobat 5 does not work correctlly with Word XP. You need to use
Acrobat 6 / PDFMaker 6. One caveat. If you need to create additional links
/ bookmarks once the document is converted, Acrobat 6 appears to have a
problem with relative links - it makes them all absolute! This obviously
causes chaos if you distribute your linked pdfs to others.

One way around this, although Adobe say it can't / shouldn't be done, is to
have both Acrobats 5 and 6 on your machine, then you can go from XP to PDF
with PDF maker 6, "reduce the file size" in Acrobat 6, then open the PDF in
Acrobat 5 to add your additional links.

Hope this helps

Kevin Harper

 

[Greg]

I fight the same problems almost a year.
I use Acrobat 6 and Word-2000 on Win-2000.
I lost all the hope I had.
Greg

 

[Graham Mayor]

Provided you have the latest update, Acrobat 5 worked with Word 2002 (XP)
but it predates Word 2003 and its installation routine does not understand
the different folder construction and thus the add-in can find itself either
not installed or in the wrong folder to work with Word 2003. Upgrading 2002
to 2003 causes the add-in to be moved to the correct folder (or should).

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[Chad DeMeyer]

At least with Acrobat 5 (I haven't looked at 6 yet), you can change several
options, including whether or not various kind of links in a Word document
are included in the PDF, by running the "DoPrefsForm" macro in Word
(Tools>Macro>Macros>DoPrefsForm>Run).

cjd