I'm using Adobe Standard 8.1.1, MS Word 2003, Windows XP SP2
I've searched the forums, acrobat website, etc. for a really good explanation of what all the different options mean for automatically making bookmarks from the document structure.
Like how to know what Index1, Normal, etc.---what all these options do.
I find that either it isn't grabbing enough bookmarks (like not really grabbing anything useful)...or grabbing everything (including all the text in each paragraph).
At one point in time, I remember using the create pdf from multiple files, and it did a decent job adding bookmarks to the structure of the word documents (I still had to add some, etc., but it did a pretty good job.
I'm talking about combining a LOT of word documents into the PDF (sometimes around 100), and I know for a fact that there have been easily over 700 bookmarks in the final combined pdf file I made previous to the one I am working on currently---so it would be nice if I didn't have to start nearly from scratch again
Also, tried using the add bookmarks from structure inside Adobe, and gives some success with some of the options (not as good as I had before, though).
The word documents have various fonts indicating the various sections (like the one "header" is a large, bold, underline), next subsections are smaller bold, etc. Note when I say "header" I am not referring to the top portion of a word document, or, in this case, usually a font style either (like heading 1, etc.)
Please help
Thanks in advance
Suggest that you do some research about Word "Styles" first and then make a small document that uses Word Styles correctly....then try make a PDF from that and see if that one will make good bookmarks.
The problem starts with Word.
Hope this helps....
Acrobat is probably the program I use most often and I'm learning more every day.