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Subject:Re: Tooltips in PDF files - take II From:"Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:58:54 +1100
Erika Yanovich wrote:
> I for no response on this one, so I'm posting for the second time,
> hoping for more luck.
> =================
> Does anyone know what to do in Word2000 files to get tooltips in PDF
> files after conversion? We'd like to have some screen maps with
> hotspots, which display tooltips on mouse over.
> TIA
> Erika
You may need to do something with hyperlinks.
Here's a PDF tool that will preserve hyperlinks
in a Word doc through PDF conversion. I'm sure
there are others: http://www.pdfstore.com/details.asp?ProdID=437
You might try some of the PDF-related news groups
for advice.
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Michael West
