Hello -
I am a technical writer, and create many PDFs from Word documents for my clients to use on-line. I am currently using Acrobat Professional 7.1.0 and Word 2003. I use the Create PDF Bookmarks from Word Headings option in Word, and most links to topcs convert fine.
My pet peeve is that when a user clicks on a bookmark in my PDF and the corresponding topic displays, it appears too high on the page in the PDF.
For example, I have a heading called "Overview" that is bookmarked in my PDF. The Table of Contents in my Bookmarks pane of the PDF contains this topic.
When the user click the "Overview" bookmark and the PDF document moves to that topic, I can barely see the "Overview" title at the top of the page. Consequently, I end up having to manually re-set every bookmark so the topic heading isn't cut off by the top of the window.
Is there a setting I've not yet found that will automatically create an off-set amount above a bookmarked topic within a document?
FYI - I've tried creating the PDF in Acrobat too, but the result is the same.
Thanks in advance for your help!
BTW - the Product Version drop-down in this posting form did not give me an option to choose Acrobat 7.1.0, which is the version I am using....
Have you tried playing with the preset magnification?
Some of these settings do result in what you describe for the bookmark "overview".
These would be Actual Size, Fit Width, and Fit Visible.
Some of the settings can preclude the behavior (although the page view established for the bookmark can be another variable to consider).
These would be Fit Page or Fit Height.
If you cannot set these in your authoring application you can do so using a post-process Batch Sequence.
You'd create a new batch sequence using the "Open Options" sequence.
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