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Subject:Re: Acrobat Pro versus Acrobat Standard? From:Richard Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net> To:techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:33:02 -0700
Hi Jim,
Pardon my naiveté here, but shouldn't Word do this?
I can do all three of these things with Open Office without using Acrobat at all.
In fact, I just opened a random Word file in Open Office, created an internal link, created a TOC, and exported a PDF that has bookmarks and hyperlinks (both internal and from the TOC).
That said, if you do need Acrobat, I think they still offer a free trial, so you could check it out before committing to a purchase.
Best regards,
Richard
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On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:34, Jim <jameswitkin -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Anyone familiar with the major differences between these two versions of
> Acrobat?
>
> Primarily, I want to create PDFs from Word documents with these features:
>
> 1) Retain hyperlinks from the Word document (both navigational hyperlinks
> to go to another part of the file and external links to go to web pages)
> 2) Retain the hyperlink capability for the TOC (i.e. click on section
> heading or page number in the TOC and go to that page in the PDF)
> 3) Ability to convert Word style headings (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc) to
> PDF bookmarks. With bookmarks, the reader gets a view of the document's TOC
> in the sidebar of the PDF viewer no matter where they are in the document.
> The user can click on the bookmarks and go to that section of the PDF.
>
> If I can do all these things with Acrobat Standard, I would rather not
> spend the extra money for the Pro version. Advice?
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