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Subject:RE: Problematic TOC links in PDF from Word From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:14:24 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Margulis
>
> Norcross, Amanda wrote:
>
> > Hello all. I am creating a PDF file from an 8-page Word
> > document. There
> > is a brief TOC at the beginning of the Word document, and
> > the TOC links
> > work fine within Word, i.e. I click on a TOC link and it
> > goes directly
> > to the associated heading. However, when I click on a TOC
> > link in the
> > PDF file, it jumps to the top of the page that contains the heading,
> > even when the heading is at the bottom of the page.
>
> That's perfectly normal behavior. A TOC links to a page
> number. Period...
Maybe that's "normal, period" for a PDF file. In Word, the TOC links
directly to the associated heading, just as Amanda described it. Is it
possible to generate a PDF file with the same response?
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