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FWIW, Nancy, I know there's a program available through The Editorium
that will bring Word index entries into Quark (see discussion at http://www.editorium.com/quarkconverter/TH_6.htm). Perhaps something
analagous exists (or could be commissioned) for Frame. A look at the
Dexter plug-in would also seem to suggest that has potential to help
with your indexing, including setting a special bookmark for index topic
entries -- and from there perhaps not a far leap to the requisite
hyperlink in the PDF. (See http://www.editorium.com/dexter.htm to
explore further). The Editorium newsletter has also run about 10
articles on Word indexing over the years. See the archives at http://www.editorium.com/euindex.htm.
Jim
Usual disclaimer: I have no affiliation with The Editorium -- I am just
a satisfied reader of the newsletter and user of several of Jack's free
macros.
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Hi All,
Thank you to the folks who responded. Since I (and my client) was hoping
that there was something easy that I overlooked, I'm advising the client
to either live without an automated solution (the manual solution is not
what they want), or to switch to Frame (which is what they should have
used for this application, IMHO).
Regards,
Nancy Adams
In a message dated 9/19/2007 10:14:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com writes:
Bear wrote:
Re the index: AFAIK there is simply no way to convert a Word index into
hyperlinked bookmarks in a PDF. Perhaps there's an add-on package, but
it's simply not possible with the standard Acrobat PDFMaker or Acrobat
Distiller or the Acrobat PDF print driver.
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Wow! I guess I owe an apology to Nitro-PDF (my Frugal Converter). Now
I'm interested, might see if manually-inserted bookmarks make it
through
the conversion process. As I said, my folks are still at the "there
are
words on paper? And they actually make sense? That's new and
different!" stage. I'm sure we'll become more technologically
sophisticated once the shine of this new program wears off -- so I
should start looking in those areas now.
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