TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:Re: Acrobat Pro versus Acrobat Standard? From:Kathleen MacDowell <kathleen -dot- eamd -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Jim <jameswitkin -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 23 Jun 2015 20:19:04 -0500
FWIW:
Just as a point of fact, back in 2005 I used Acrobat Pro and it did things
that the standard version couldn't, as I discovered when I changed jobs
later in the year. Unfortunately, after so many years I don't recall what
the difference was. It could be that other programs have picked up those
abilities in the meantime.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Jim <jameswitkin -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Anyone familiar with the major differences between these two versions of
> Acrobat?
>
> Primarily, I want to create PDFs from Word documents with these features:
>
> 1) Retain hyperlinks from the Word document (both navigational hyperlinks
> to go to another part of the file and external links to go to web pages)
> 2) Retain the hyperlink capability for the TOC (i.e. click on section
> heading or page number in the TOC and go to that page in the PDF)
> 3) Ability to convert Word style headings (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc) to
> PDF bookmarks. With bookmarks, the reader gets a view of the document's TOC
> in the sidebar of the PDF viewer no matter where they are in the document.
> The user can click on the bookmarks and go to that section of the PDF.
>
> If I can do all these things with Acrobat Standard, I would rather not
> spend the extra money for the Pro version. Advice?
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Learn more about Adobe Technical Communication Suite (2015 Release) |
>http://bit.ly/1FR7zNW
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as kathleen -dot- eamd -at- gmail -dot- com -dot-
>
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to
> techwr-l-leave -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>
>
> Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- Visit
>http://www.techwhirl.com/email-discussion-groups/ for more resources and
> info.
>
> Looking for articles on Technical Communications? Head over to our online
> magazine at http://techwhirl.com
>
> Looking for the archived Techwr-l email discussions? Search our public
> email archives @ http://techwr-l.com/archives
>
--
Kathleen MacDowell
kathleen -dot- eamd -at- gmail -dot- com
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Learn more about Adobe Technical Communication Suite (2015 Release) | http://bit.ly/1FR7zNW