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Conversion from Word to PDF - how to import bookmarks (Acrobat 5)

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2009-05-26 12:19:57
whitezb
Registered: May 26 2009
Posts: 3

I have adobe Acrobat 5.x.

I am sending a word document to distiller to convert to pdf. The word file has a Table of Contents, however Adobe is not creating bookmarks for the TOC.

How can I set Acrobat so that it recognizes the tags in the TOC and converts them to bookmarks?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 5.x or older, Windows
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2009-05-26 12:42:06
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gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
You should look at using the PDF converter within Word and setting the conversion settings to include links and indicate which Word structures you want converted to bookmarks.

George Kaiser

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2009-05-26 17:00:42
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daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Hi whitezb,
Acrobat 5 - Full is an old friend; we processed a fair dinkum of files together back when.

Some "about Acrobat 5" -
There was Acrobat 5 - Full, Acrobat 5 - Approval, & Reader 5.
No "Professional" or "Standard" (these came with Acrobat 6).
Only Acrobat 5 - Full provided the PDFMaker add-in for MS Office applications
(Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). As it is today, the PDFMaker for MS Word was the most robust.
Installing Acrobat 5 - Full [i]after[/i] installing MS Office the appropriate files where placed
in Office files' install location and available from the Office application's command menu toolbar.
When Office 2000 was released, an update to Acrobat 5 - Full provided a more robust PDFMaker
for Word; particularly for output of tagged PDFs.

Regarding Acrobat 5 - Approval

Quote:
"Adobe Acrobat Approval is a subset of Adobe Acrobat 5.0, which includes many of the features of the full Acrobat 5.0 program -- but does not include the powerful PDF creation tools, including Web Capture, or document review and mark-up tools that come with the full Acrobat 5.0 program. Acrobat Approval allows you to save form data locally, and also provides powerful security features, including Digital Signatures on forms."In other words, a small step up from the free Reader -- not as many features as Business Tools offered, but a clearer focus on the use of PDF forms, forms workflows and digital signatures.

[url]http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=1592[/url]
As with contemporary Acrobats, installing a newer Acrobat while an older Acrobat is still
present can (more to the point... [i]does[/i]) goober PDFMaker for installed Office applications.
So, with Acrobat 5 - Full installed and some newer Acrobat subsequently installed the 5.0 PDFMaker
gets knocked out of service (been there, got the t-shirt...).

If you installed a newer Office suite this can goober Acrobat 5.0's PDFMaker.

For Acrobat 5 - Full's PDFMaker to work the "PDFMaker.dot" must be present and a selected add-in for MS Word.
With Word open, from the command tool bar, Acrobat > Change Conversion Settings opens the
"Acrobat(R) PDFMaker 5.0 for Microsoft(R) Office" dialog window.
To have a MS Word ToC and its associated links to have PDF links select the Office tab.
In the the "Word Features" pane, select "Cross-References & TOC Links".The Settings, Security, Bookmarks, and Display Options provide/provided a generous configuration
selection set for output of PDFs from MS Word (as is still the case, other Office applications configuration
selections for PDFMaker are, to various degrees, less robust).

If you have Acrobat 5 - Full installed you might be able to recover its PDFMaker.dot and its associated
functional support for output PDFs from MS Office applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint).
Having the install CD-ROM can be helpful.

Help file (PDF) for Acrobat 5.x PDFMaker
[url]www.aces.edu/ctu/compref/acrobat/5.x/PDFMaker.pdf[/url]

Troubleshooting guide
[url]http://www.psy.fsu.edu/tsg/faqs/2K%20XP%20-%20PDFMaker%20unavailable.htm[/url]

an obtw - thanks for posting - gave me a reason to boot up the old box that has Acrobat 5 - Full installedBe well...

Be well...

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