Re: Comments lost from Word to PDF

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

Jonathan West wrote:
> 
> >
> > is there any way that the PDF will retain the comment as it is in
> > Word, so that when you put the
> > cursor on the text that has the comment, the little window opens
> > and shows the comment?  or is my
> > only option to have the comment on a separate page?  is there an
> > edit that i have to perform in
> > PDF to recreate the comment?
> >
> 
> I'm working on some software that will allow cross-references in Word
> documents to   be searched out and converted to hyperlinks, and for the
> whole kit&caboodle to be converted to PDF, including having the page numbers
> of the index converted into hyperlinks, and comments converted to PDF Notes,
> neither of which PDFMaker <spit!> can manage at present.


PDFMaker *definitely* handles cross-references.  I've used them in a dozen books.

PDFMaker also has an option to convert comments to notes--are you saying it 
doesn't work?  (I don't use Word comments, so I haven't tried it.)

A nifty little program called Activate (http://www.virginiasystems.com) will 
hyperlink the page numbers in your index in the blink of an eye.  I wouldn't do 
PDF without it.

By the way, the reason PDFMaker doesn't convert index page numbers to hyperlinks
is because they aren't hyperlinks in Word, to begin with.  That's Microsoft's 
fault, in my opinion.

--David
 
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