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2008-12-11 06:10:42
jolanda5
Registered: Dec 11 2008
Posts: 2

Hello

Hope someone can help me. I am looking for a way to set appearance of the links created with the adobe converter.

I do have a document with a TOC and a lot of crossreferences and endnotes. When convering the word document to pdf document they are all appearing as links. However these links all are invisible and I would like them visible. Of course it is possible to set this in the pdf, but the program I am working with does not allow me to change this in one go. Thus I will have to find a way to do this during the rendering/converting.

Does anyone know where this setting is. Is it something in Word, the converter or in acrobat

I am using word 2003 and acrobat 7.0

Thanks for reading, hope you can give me a clue

Jolanda

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0, Windows
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2008-12-13 06:13:46
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Jolanda,
The blue underline feature comes from MS Word not Acrobat PDFMaker.
Word changes the applicable character string to a font color of blue with the underline for Word hyperlinks to other files or Word bookmarks.
However, Word does not do this for the TOC links, cross-references, footnotes or endnotes.
While the blue underline has become associated with "links" I suspect that the typical conventions of style have not done this for these other annotations. As Word is coded to provide support for the generally accepted conventions of style I suspect that we won't see blue underline for such annotations anytime soon.

While in MS Word you could manually edit the default footnote and endnote character to a different font color (say blue) and even increase the font size to provide the visual clue of a "link." However, it seems to me that this would be something of a Sisyphean task, no?

Be well...

Be well...

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2008-12-15 01:20:50
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jolanda5
Registered: Dec 11 2008
Posts: 2
Dear DAKA630

Thanks for your reply. I have changee the word format for the links to blue boxed. (a blue line around the word) however this makes me really think it is something in Acrobat as some boxes apear half and some appear whole and some have dissapeared after conversion of the document. As far as I remember it is a setting in the converter (thus acrobat)

The task to create the cross references in blue in not really big as I can create a macro that keeps the format and makes the text blue at the same time. But a the result of the blue boxes is poor I do not think this is the way to go.

The blue box style has to be there for all regulatory authorities in the world, but I guess this is still a small part of the users of Acrobat and Word.


Thanks again for your reply and thoughts, it does make me see the problem in another light, and does provide me with a temporary solution.

However I am still looking for the solution but spreading my search over both programs now. I have seen adobe doing this so it should work. Just not sure if I do not have to go back to adobe 5 or 6 for this to happen ( I hope not:-))

Best wishes
Jolanda
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