LINKS in PPT gone in PDF?

[SRS]

I'm fairly new at this...so maybe it's me. But I need some advice on how to
do this.

And...I don't know if it's a PowerPoint issue or an Acrobat issue (which I
think it is, but couldn't find anything on the Acrobat forum about this.)

I have PowerPoint 2003 and Acrobat 6.0

I made a fairly simple 30 page PowerPoint presentation that has about 50
links in it...all links go to another slide within the PowerPoint
presentation.

I want to make a PDF of this presentation with all the links intact.
However, after the PDF is made, none of the links are there - much less work.

Am I doing something wrong or do I have to go into the PDF and recreate all
of these links (ugh!).

Thank you for your input!

 

[Michael Koerner]

This will get you started.
Distribute presentations as Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00126.htm

Steve also has many other PowerPoint-PDF related subjects in the FAQ.
Browsing there may find more goodies for you to go away with.


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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]

 

[SRS]

Michael:
Thank you very much for the quick response. I'm bummed that I have to spend
$90 on another program just to get my PowerPoint links to work in a PDF
program. That's not in the budget. Guess I know what I'm doing
today...recreating all my links in the PDF version. Hi-ho, Hi-ho, off to
work I go...

This will get you started.
Distribute presentations as Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00126.htm

Steve also has many other PowerPoint-PDF related subjects in the FAQ.
Browsing there may find more goodies for you to go away with.


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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]

I'm fairly new at this...so maybe it's me. But I need some advice on how
to
do this.

And...I don't know if it's a PowerPoint issue or an Acrobat issue (which I
think it is, but couldn't find anything on the Acrobat forum about this.)

I have PowerPoint 2003 and Acrobat 6.0

I made a fairly simple 30 page PowerPoint presentation that has about 50
links in it...all links go to another slide within the PowerPoint
presentation.

I want to make a PDF of this presentation with all the links intact.
However, after the PDF is made, none of the links are there - much less
work.

Am I doing something wrong or do I have to go into the PDF and recreate
all
of these links (ugh!).

Thank you for your input!

 

[SRS]

Steve:
Once again, you come to my rescue!

I initially printed by simply going to the Print to the PDF driver. Thanks
for explaining that one.

So, I tried it again using the toolbar option (yes, Acrobat was installed
AFTER my Office application). It only half-worked.

OK...see if you can figure this one out. To give you an idea of what I'm
working on, here's what I made.

Slides 2-5 have links/hyperlinks that were made from an icon of a camera.
Slides 6-30 are all pictures (actually screen shots of images taken off of
various web sites). So, I told people to simply click on the camera icon and
it would take them to a picture of what is being discussed in slides 2-5. As
I said, it works perfectly in PowerPoint.

Then, on each of the pictures, I made a text box that basically says "to
return to page x, click here" and made that a link.

So, when I remade the PDF using the toolbar option, ALL the links that were
made in the text box ("to return to page x click here") work perfectly...but
NONE of the camera icon links work to send people to the pictures.

I hope I'm painting a clear picture here.

I wish budget dollars allowed me to go to PowerPoint Live next week as I'd
bring this beast in to show you in person. Alas...I'll be here in central
Ohio, working on my links wishing I was in San Diego. Woah is me. (Don't
you feel sorry for me???)

Thanks again, Steve. I really appreciate your help!

 

[Michael Koerner]

I see that Steve has popped in He will probably have more ideas than I on
the subject of PDF.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]

Michael:
Thank you very much for the quick response. I'm bummed that I have to
spend
$90 on another program just to get my PowerPoint links to work in a PDF
program. That's not in the budget. Guess I know what I'm doing
today...recreating all my links in the PDF version. Hi-ho, Hi-ho, off to
work I go...

This will get you started.
Distribute presentations as Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00126.htm

Steve also has many other PowerPoint-PDF related subjects in the FAQ.
Browsing there may find more goodies for you to go away with.


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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]

I'm fairly new at this...so maybe it's me. But I need some advice on
how
to
do this.

And...I don't know if it's a PowerPoint issue or an Acrobat issue
(which I
think it is, but couldn't find anything on the Acrobat forum about
this.)

I have PowerPoint 2003 and Acrobat 6.0

I made a fairly simple 30 page PowerPoint presentation that has about
50
links in it...all links go to another slide within the PowerPoint
presentation.

I want to make a PDF of this presentation with all the links intact.
However, after the PDF is made, none of the links are there - much less
work.

Am I doing something wrong or do I have to go into the PDF and recreate
all
of these links (ugh!).

Thank you for your input!