Re: Converting Word index to PDF

Subject: Re: Converting Word index to PDF
From: "Maaike Groenewege" <mgroenewege -at- hvds -dot- nl>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 09:36:54 +0100

Hi David

Best wishes for the new year and thanks a lot for your answer!

Maaike

On 20 Dec 2001, at 10:01, dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com wrote:

> Maaike Groenewege wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for some kind of tool that converts an MS Word index to
> > pdf. More specifically, I'd like the page numbers to be clickable. I
> > need to convert 30 large indexes, so manually creating links with
> > Acrobat is not really an option.
> >
> > Google came up with two tools: Compose 4.1 and Bookends
> > Activate, but the first one is too expensive for our budget ($900),
> > and the second one still requires a lot of manual work.
>
>
> I've used Sonar Bookends Activate from Virginia Systems for about two
> years now.
>
> This one-trick pony couldn't be easier to use: Open the PDF, select
> the tool, enter the physical page number where the index starts and
> the number of frontmatter pages (i, ii, ...), and press Enter.
>
> Converting 30 large indexes should take you less than half an hour.
> You'll probably spend more time opening and saving the PDF files than
> Acrivate will spend hyperlinking the page numbers. (Maybe that's the
> manual work you're referring to...)
>
> --David
>
> =============================
> David M. Brown - Brown Inc.
> dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
> =============================
>
> A V A I L A B L E N O W ! http://www.html-indexer.com/
>
> HTML Indexer 3, still the easiest way to create and maintain real
> back-of-the-book indexes for web sites and other HTML documents.
>
> Now including options for HTML Help and JavaHelp indexes, too!
>
>  



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