Need to set up 60 pages of PDF in a navigational way

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Dan

Hello,
I have a catalogue that is made up of 60 seperate pdf files, each file representing a page.
I wish to have some suggestions, or examples of something that is functional, and atttractive.
Thanks,
Dan
 
J

Jim Buyens

-----Original Message-----
Hello,
Howdy.

I have a catalogue that is made up of 60 seperate pdf
files, each file representing a page.
I wish to have some suggestions, or examples of
something that is functional, and atttractive.
Click to expand...

This is really difficult without knowing more about your
content.

If the pages are clearly delineated by topic, a list of
60 links would be simple and probably effective.

If you expect visitors to read the pages sequentially, a
list of links might still work, but in a frameset with
the links in one frame and the PDF pages in another.

If the catalog contains hundreds of independent items,
you might want to create a database with a record for
each item. That way, visitors could search the database,
and then bring up the catalog pages for items of interest.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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D

Dan

Hi Jim
Thanks for replying
The 60 pages will be unique in that each has a title that defines it
For example "Handy Reference Index" would be page 6
"Sales Staff" would be page 7 and so on
I would not expect that the user would require the ability to search the pdf
However, I would suggest that they would also need/want the ability to read a page anb go to the next sequentially, and back so on
Thanks again for any help you can offer
Dan
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

The problem with using PDF in this manner, is that each one will have to
open in the Adobe Reader, then be closed, and the next one selected, so
there will be a delay as each is downloaded.

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Dan said:
Hi Jim,
Thanks for replying.
The 60 pages will be unique in that each has a title that defines it.
For example "Handy Reference Index" would be page 6,
"Sales Staff" would be page 7 and so on.
I would not expect that the user would require the ability to search the pdf.
However, I would suggest that they would also need/want the ability to
Click to expand...
read a page anb go to the next sequentially, and back so on.
 
D

Dan

Hello Thomas
I wondered about that, can you offer some alternative ideas
I did try converting one page to a png file, but the text was not great
Dan
 
C

chris leeds

if they don't have to be PDF files you could just copy and paste (and
probably reformat) the text onto regular (htm) pages in FrontPage. then you
could use FrontPage's table of contents component or nav view to generate
the navigation for you.

HTH
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Your best bet is the create the page directly in FP, by copying the content
from the PDFs, or as Jim Buyen suggested, a database solution may be an even
better approach.

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FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
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