Converting Publisher 2003 to PDF

[Blake]

When I convert a 2003 Publisher document to Adobe 6 Standard my Hyperlinks
are not active, any ideas, when I convert a Word doc it works fine.

Thanks

 

[Ed Bennett]

When I convert a 2003 Publisher document to Adobe 6 Standard my Hyperlinks
are not active, any ideas, when I convert a Word doc it works fine.

Hyperlinks are not printable. Therefore when you print a document to the
Adobe PDF printer, hyperlinks are lost. This is overcome in Word by
using an add-in that locates the hyperlinks and flags them to Distiller,
which re-inserts them. An add-in which does the same thing for Publisher
is provided with Adobe Acrobat 7.

If you type the hyperlink in full (so that someone reading it in print
would be able to go to the URL), then recent versions of Adobe Reader
will automatically convert them to proper hyperlinks.

 

[Chuck Davis]

When I convert a 2003 Publisher document to Adobe 6 Standard my Hyperlinks
are not active, any ideas, when I convert a Word doc it works fine.

Thanks

I'm not sure with the Standard version, but in the Pro version, right click
on a blank space on the tool bar and choose Advanced Editing. The 4th icon
from the left will be the Link Tool. Your cursor will change to a small
cross, drag it across the hyperlink and a dialog box will open giving you
the following choices:
1. Open a page in this document - I use this for all offpage connectors,
e.g., Continued on page x. and Continued from page x.
2. Open a file - never have I used this.
3. Open a web page - insert the URL here
4. Custom link - I have never used this.

I always have the Publisher document open, in order to select, copy and then
paste the URL in the appropriate box.
I use the Open a page for links on the table of contents.

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