RE: PDF a "book" of Word files

["Spreadbury, David C." <David -dot- Spreadbury -at- marconi -dot- com>]

It might be possible if the merging of files is done in Acrobat. It would
depend on if the TOC links and bookmarks would come across properly. To make
the page numbering work, a little better, if each Word file was numbered in
such a way as to be unique in each file, i.e., WordDoc1-1, WordDoc2-1, etc.
Then you can merge the PDFs in Acrobat, in the proper order of course. It
would be worth a quick check using just a couple of the Word docs.

This would allow working on individual Word files, then merging them into
the composite PDF, deleting the older section that is being replaced. Turns
into a simple collation problem then.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:39 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: PDF a "book" of Word files



Ok, guys...here's the thing..

I'm working in FM and I'm using the book capability to create comprehensive
PDFs, which are then placed on network shared drives. However, I'm outta
here in a week, so I've been working on converting all my FM stuff to Word
using Mif2Go because nobody in my group is FM savvy. By leaving them a set
in Word, they can do maintenance until they get up to speed in FM.

Anyway...I met with my boss this afternoon to introduce him to my file
structure and processes and he assumed that he would be able to maintain the
files in Word and use Word to create updated books just like I do in FM.

When I told him that he couldn't, he was not pleased...not directed at me
because he knew that I gave him more working in FM than I could have in
Word, just not pleased in general.

Did I lie? is there a way of taking 300 or more individual Word files (and
keep them individual) and generate a single PDF, with continuous pagination,
TOC, and bookmarks?

Understand, this will be maintained by one of the "lucky" developers until
they can figure out how/if/when to replace me.

Please don't include Master document as a suggestion :-)

Thanks    

John Posada
Information Hunter-Gatherer
Special Projects; Information Technology
Barnes&Noble.com
NY: 212-414-6656 



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