I'm currently trying to create a PDF using the Convert to Adobe PDF function in MS Word's (2003) tool bar. The document is a 530 page master document comprised of 19 parts.
If I use the Adobe printer function, I can generate a PDF but it doesn't have any bookmarks or cross-reference links. This is fine for the paper version of the document, but it doesn't help the users accessing the information online.
I've already tried to covert the document to RTF and turning off the Reflow in the Adobe PDF Change Conversion Setting under Accessibility. Neither of these suggestions in a previous post worked.
I'm using MS Word 2003 and Adobe Acrobat Professional Acrobat 8.1. The application just hangs during creation (not responding). I've let the application run for three hours to no resolution. The application never even got to the part of asking to turn of tagging for the large document.
Any help would be appreciated...any help aside from switching to another word processing application.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
First of all that's a really large document.
Second of all, unless the person who put the document together in Word used styles correctly, and did everything else to ensure that the document was marked up correctly; Acrobat won't know what to make of it.
I often have to bookmark big documents where this is the case. So I can do it pretty quickly manually, and decide on how much depth the bookmarks need to cover. Sometimes it's just chapter titles. Sometimes it's chapter titles and major sections. It might be a couple of hours, but it usually suffices to "get the job done." Better than having no bookmarks.
Just page through a the PDF, highlight the chapter titles, and make a bookmark.
Then set properties so that when the document opens, the bookmarks panel is displayed, so your user know they are there.
Hope this may be of some help
Acrobat is probably the program I use most often and I'm learning more every day.