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Subject:Re: Frame to PDF From:Scott McClare <smcclare -at- DY4 -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 3 Dec 1998 11:43:27 -0500
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> From: Jim McAward [SMTP:jimmc -at- CHYRON -dot- COM]
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> Subject: Frame to PDF
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>And, for making PDFs, there's a more-or-less seamless method
>for conversion that makes selected paragraph formats into
>bookmarks, and all TOC/Index and cross-refs into hyperlinks.
>Since Adobe's controlled Frame since v5, this integration between
>Frame and Acrobat makes sense.
I'm pretty happy with the way Frame makes PDFs too, with one caveat: in
PDF files generated from multi-chapter books, the PDF bookmarks that
Frame generates from paragraph formats get jumbled in the PDF output.
There's a pattern to it, which I haven't really determined; generally
speaking, it seems to shuffle top-level headings to the bottom end of
the bookmark list.
So you might wind up having to do a little rearranging of the bookmarks
using Acrobat Exchange. However, I've also had to add an equivalent set
of bookmarks manually in legacy Word documents, and I FAR prefer the
former inconvenience to the latter. 8-)
Take care,
Scott
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Scott McClare - Technical Writer
DY 4 Systems Inc., Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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