Re: PDF Linking Software

["David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com>]

Roger Bell asked:
> 
> I need a post-production tool that will create jumps from the Contents and
> Index entries to the pages...  I want to use the text in the Contents and
> Index as links also.


Dick Margulis wrote:
> 
> Get Acrobat 4.05 and use the PDF Maker button...

As far as I know, PDFMaker won't translate the page numbers in your Word-generated index into links in the PDF file.  A tool that *will* is Sonar Bookends Activate, from Virginia Systems.

This pony is *very* good at its one trick, and it beats the heck out of doing the same thing by hand.

As for the page numbers in the TOC, PDFMaker should do that for you easily.

However, I don't know of a tool that will translate the *text* of the TOC and index entries into links.  (For an index entry, that could be extremely difficult--if the index entry has multiple page numbers, which one should the link go to?)

--David

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