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Not sure if this is the right group for this question, but here
goes... Word - PDF - Hyperlinks. I've got a specific problem and not sure if Acrobat/Word can do it. We have the full version of Acrobat 7. Hyperlinks *do* work in Word, not just ordinary ones to web pages and external documents, but also "hidden" ones, where the text on the page "hides" the ugly hyperlink URL text. So you can put "See our management policy", where "management policy" is a hyperlink and the full URL is "behind" it. This works in Word. However, upon PDF-ing, hyperlinks that are in the document in full (like http://www.government...etc) or will work and be converted. But the "hidden" hyperlinks described above won't work. Does anyone know of a way to make these work? Is this actually a Word thing or more of an Acrobat/PDF problem? Steve Wylie |
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On 20 Mar, 10:04, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
Are you using the Acrobat add-in for Word to create the PDF or merely printing to the PDF driver? I have asked the person concerned and she says she did try with the Adobe PDF Word add-in button menu thing that appears - but she got an error and no PDF was produced. She thinks there is a problem between Word 2003 and the Acrobat that was installed, which is why she always uses the "print to the driver" approach. We have other people in the organisation with "full strength" Adobe Acrobat, so if push comes to shove we will try to produce the PDF on one of their PCs, if these hyperlinks will come out properly if the PDF is produced through the Distiller. Thank you for the advice. Steve |
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Acrobat can certainly have functioning hyperlinks as you describe, so the
problem must be somewhere in the way you create the PDF. Whether Word or Acrobat may be guilty, it's hard to say, but my money would be on Acrobat. It may be unconnected, but there were some hyperlink problems in early versions of Acrobat 7 (hyperlinking to it rather than from it), so do you have all the updates? If memory serves, I think you needed 7.5 (or 7.0.5?) to fix it. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com wrote in message ... Not sure if this is the right group for this question, but here goes... Word - PDF - Hyperlinks. I've got a specific problem and not sure if Acrobat/Word can do it. We have the full version of Acrobat 7. Hyperlinks *do* work in Word, not just ordinary ones to web pages and external documents, but also "hidden" ones, where the text on the page "hides" the ugly hyperlink URL text. So you can put "See our management policy", where "management policy" is a hyperlink and the full URL is "behind" it. This works in Word. However, upon PDF-ing, hyperlinks that are in the document in full (like http://www.government...etc) or will work and be converted. But the "hidden" hyperlinks described above won't work. Does anyone know of a way to make these work? Is this actually a Word thing or more of an Acrobat/PDF problem? Steve Wylie |
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Well, if we cannot get it to work I will get our I.T. Department to
check for and apply the necessary updates to the package. Thanks for the advice. Steve |
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You will have to use the add-in to get the results you require, but early
versions of Acrobat 7's add-ins, were problematic. Adobe fixed this later, so ensure that Acrobat has all the available updates applied. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: On 20 Mar, 10:04, "Graham Mayor" wrote: Are you using the Acrobat add-in for Word to create the PDF or merely printing to the PDF driver? I have asked the person concerned and she says she did try with the Adobe PDF Word add-in button menu thing that appears - but she got an error and no PDF was produced. She thinks there is a problem between Word 2003 and the Acrobat that was installed, which is why she always uses the "print to the driver" approach. We have other people in the organisation with "full strength" Adobe Acrobat, so if push comes to shove we will try to produce the PDF on one of their PCs, if these hyperlinks will come out properly if the PDF is produced through the Distiller. Thank you for the advice. Steve |
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