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Subject:Re: Converting MSWord2000 document to PDF From:rajper256 -at- hotmail -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:45:29 -0700
> To convert my MSWord2000 documents to PDF I print the document using
> Acrobat Distiller as my printer. However, I lose all links - TOC (to
> headings in the body), cross-references, hypertext links, links to
> bookmarks, etc.
>
> I'd appreciate any help/suggestion on how I may convert my MSWord2000
> documents to PDF and preserve the links.
>
> Do I need a plug-in? If yes, what would it be, and where can I get it?
>
> Cheers
>
> Raj
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With some research, and David's info re: PDFMaker Macro, I finally got the
MSWord-to-PDF conversion to work.
This is what I did:
Copied the Pdfmaker.dot file in the Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat
5.0/Pdfmaker folder to Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Startup.
