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Subject:Re: Links in PDF Files Created from Word From:"Peter Ring" <prc -at- prc -dot- dk> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:55:46 +0100
Janet Levy <JanetL -at- robotec -dot- co -dot- il> wrote:
> We are using Word 2000 and Acrobat 5.
> Is it possible to generate PDFs from our Word files (using Distiller or a
> method other than PDFMaker) and maintain the links? And if so, how?
> Specifically, we want links to other files and to URLs.
> We do not have PDFMaker installed (and prefer it that way). And of course
> we'd prefer not to have to create the links ourselves in Acrobat.
To some extend I understand your problem with accepting PDFMaker from Adobe
Acrobat 5. If there were a lot of links it could take hours to create a PDF-file, and it
often failed completely. Futhermore, you couldn't make it over-night because you
had to be present and press [Enter] from time to time when MS Word made the error
message: "Out of memory. You cannot undo any more" (which in this case was
rubbish.)
However, the PDFMaker which comes with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 is a lot faster than the
PDFMaker which came with Adobe Acrobat 4 and 5, and I haven't run into the "out of
memory" problem here (yet).
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