Re: PDF bookmark generation

["Tamminga, Ernie" <et -at- DSC -dot- COM>]

Here's a link to a vendor that purports to do what you're asking
for...i.e., automatic PDF hyperlinks from MS Word.
I discovered the Web reference while searching for the same kind of
capability you're seeking.
We use Word97, though, and so we haven't looked very deeply into this
product, which doesn't support Word97. So I have no way of vouching for
it, but it may well be worth investigating...  (After being used to
FrameMaker's capabilities vis-a-vis PDF, it was -- still is -- very
painful for us to discover Word's lack thereof!)

http://www.multilinker.com/mlink.html

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Joanne Greene [SMTP:joanne -dot- greene -at- JACOBUS -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Friday, April 25, 1997 1:18 PM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       PDF bookmark generation
>
>Has anyone had any experience with generating PDFs of books from Word? Have
>you had to create all the bookmarks manually?
>Is there a product that can take a Word 7 file and generate the PDF
>bookmarks as easily as this can be done with FrameMaker?
>
>If there isn't, what is the best way to set up a Word7 file so the paragraph
>tags are imported into FrameMaker from the RTF?
> The Word tags come into FrameMaker as "starred" tags, and require a step of
>adding each one to the catalog.
>I've done some initial experiments and it appears that if the Word paragraph
>tag names are  identical (including capitalization) to the default
>FrameMaker paragraph tags, it might not be necessary to add each tag to the
>catalog. but then, even with identical names, FrameMaker may still
>distinquish between the imported tag and the default tag because it comes
>from another product.
>
>
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>Joanne Greene
>Jacobus Technology, Inc.       ...developers of JSpace
>URL:  http://www.jacobus.com
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>voice: 301-926-0802  fax: 301-926-2313
>email: joanne -dot- greene -at- jacobus -dot- com
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